Legibility And Reader-Friendly Font
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based on a phonetic principle, it would be only honest to use determinative signs instead – to mark personal names, toponyms, abbreviations, etc. Some determinatives are already in use (e.g. quote marks), so one more would not make a difference to our system. I would prefer to see a single small glyph preceding a target word.
Minuscules should have the same height and about the same width, and each one should acquire some unique feature making it clearly distinct from the others. Should we be too timid to abolish the capitals, we might come up with some kind of “Russian solution”, i.e. using the same forms for both, as it is easier to design 26 good graphemes than 52. For example, a good solution for D-O-0-Q problematic group is the letter-forms used for the new German car number plates – apparently they had been specially developed to be recognizable from far
