Legibility Emerges Spontaneously, Rather Than Evolving Over Time (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Legibility Emerges Spontaneously, Rather Than Evolving Over Time

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Olivier Morin from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena analyzed and compared the letters of more than 100 scripts from all over the globe. He found no evidence for a long-term evolution of legibility, but found that the orientation of lines in the letters of most scripts presented surprising and widespread patterns, favoring certain kinds of orientation, symmetries, and angles over others.

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