Is this person completely insane? Or am I just not getting something? In which universe is this font remotely useful?
It's like DVORAK but for reading. The ambition is noble.
Dotsies (2012)
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Re: Dotsies (2012)
#12Love it! Could be used for printing a novel on a single page at 600 dpi.
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#13just use Chinese, it’s optimized for screen space (each character occupies a square, and has complex meaning of a word, and people read their shapes, rather than stroke by stroke )
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#14Only hackers would try to reimplement the alphabet. I can't decide whether I should be proud or embarrassed.
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#15Only hackers would try to reimplement the alphabet. I can't decide whether I should be proud or embarrassed.
Definitely proud. Why embarrassed?
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#16I think Hebrew alphabet is more economical than this.
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#17I feel compelled to write up a summary of the comments here and responses to each one:
> This is useless.
Who cares? It's super cool!
> This is not well-suited for use case X.
Did you read the page? It's so great that someone thought of this and did it.
> This has been done before.
SUPER. COOL.
> It's hard to read.
I don't know what you aren't getting about this.
> What if it implemented improvement X?
I don't know, I didn't write it. Maybe the author would appreciate the suggestion!
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#18I think Hebrew alphabet is more economical than this.
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Re: Dotsies (2012)
#19I wonder if typography can exist within a writing system like this?
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#20just use Chinese, it’s optimized for screen space (each character occupies a square, and has complex meaning of a word, and people read their shapes, rather than stroke by stroke )
But dots are more compact than strokes.