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foxglaciertoday at 12:16 AM1 replyview on HN

I was wondering how much information was being lost whenever a font designer re-created that without knowing what it's supposed to be. It turns out they all put the arrow through the corner of the right angle which adds confusion by making it look like 3D cartesian axes. One of them made the zig-zag a curve which would be completely wrong by the sextant reason. But I guess this is how symbols and language drift over time.


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RobotToastertoday at 12:32 AM

Let's hope fonts will start correcting it to the original form