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Comment by addaon | Hacker News Reader

Capital H is cursed... unconnected pixels, indistinguishable from 'ii' or "II". The concept's cool, but for this one point the wrong choice was made.

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Try reading "HiGh sky buys The lies" in the font. Pretty difficult to make out what it says...

I think most of what makes this font readable is the user using context to sort of guess at what the word could be.

If you start writing things that aren’t sentences normal people would use (or especially if you start mixing case) it doesn’t hold up. Still interesting for a “normal” use case though.

I'm more concerned about V X Y all being identical.

How will I know if it's waxy or wavy?

Like all of language: context.

Why would hair be like 80s synthpop, or potatoes be in any way related to a by-product of honey?

Hair can be either waxy or wavy or both.

Her long blond waxy hair blew in the wind.

Context.

Her wa[]y hair was a challenge for the hairdresser

I'm not saying the context always disambiguates it. You can have ambiguous sentences even with perfect fonts.

The judge delivered an ambiguous sentence.

> Her long blond waxy hair blew in the wind.

Same question as GP - how can you tell if that was meant to be waxy or wavy?

From the context. Long hair blowing in the wind is a description of beautiful hair. Wavy hair is beautiful; waxy hair is not.

This is very obvious to most people.

"I'll have you know that some people find waxy hair beautifully therefore your example is invalid and I am very intelligent"

:nerd:

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