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Re:How Typography Can Save Your Life by Kronopath on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @11:43AM (#11722744)
In my opinion, this is actually one of the benefits of simplified characters as compared to traditional. They have much more varied shapes and as such are easier to tell apart at a glance: compare characters like:

双飞机会带着几个人

to:

雙飛機會帶著幾個人

Both are actually the same set of characters, but the first one seems much easier to distinguish at a glance. I'd suspect this would Be true even for native speakers/readers, though I've never seen a study on it.

Re:How Typography Can Save Your Life by eru on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @10:25PM (#11774831)
Seems definitely plausible given how Chrome renders these on my computer.

I wonder how this plays out handwritten on paper?