Legibility And Reader-Friendly Font
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height) of individual glyphs should not vary so much.
Currently, the process of glyph identification involves one additional step of assessing its position and dimensions. Letters in words like “killing” or “by” look disproportionate; their upper and lower bounds are unclear. Therefore they are more difficult to read.
Second, integrity of the glyphs should be preserved. Identification of glyphs, comprised of two separate elements, such as ‘i’ and ‘j’, requires an additional step – assembling the elements into one glyph. But why should I do somebody else’s job? Every glyph should be one-piece!
Third, sequence of two glyphs should not look like a third glyph, there should be a clear difference, as adjacent letters tend to merge (e.g. “bum” vs. “burn”). Sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish between ‘m’ and ‘rn’, ‘d’ and ‘cl’, etc. People with
