Re:Tamil Bell
by 13of40 on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:19PM
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> I wonder if we can find medium-based influences on other scripts, say, Roman and Arabic.
Two examples:
Serifs on Roman letters originated as a way to clean up the ends of the characters when carved in stone.
When I was a kid in California, you'd regularly see gang graffiti painted in square block lettering that imitated what it would look like carved in wood (e.g. a park bench).
Two examples:
Serifs on Roman letters originated as a way to clean up the ends of the characters when carved in stone.
When I was a kid in California, you'd regularly see gang graffiti painted in square block lettering that imitated what it would look like carved in wood (e.g. a park bench).