Legibility And Reader-Friendly Font
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Gutenberg invented the printing press, people no longer depended on fonts optimized for writing, and could develop a legible one. Unfortunately, the readers did not rise up against the writers’ tyranny in Western Europe. Only Russians took advantage of the favorable circumstances and undertook modernization of their alphabet. Diacritics were abolished and letter-forms improved. Since then Cyrillic uppercase and lowercase letter-forms are not as differentiated as in Latin typography. In fact, Cyrillic lowercase letters were essentially small capitals (with very few exceptions). Other nations that used Cyrillic also followed the suit. The font did not change much since then, but even 300 years later Cyrillic is still more legible than Latin.
And now, when changing a font on a computer screen takes a single mouse-click, I wonder: why so many forms of shorthand
