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Re:Nippon Colors by masukomi on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @02:05PM (#22815380)
in places with romanized lettering it was long ago determined that this is much more difficult for readers to process. It may be a breath of fresh air for you but for most readers it's difficult to mentally process.
Re:Nippon Colors by goblin89 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @11:11PM (#22819436)
Of course, my appreciation is subjective.

However, I find that the approach described by saagarjha has the objective issue that letters in one word are more difficult to visually connect to each other, and would require a monospace font specially designed for vertical writing.