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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by maxnoe on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:34AM (#26669226)
This is a form of typographic emphasis also widely used in German Fraktur texts, called Sperrsatz:

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperrsatz

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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by HelloNurse on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:19AM (#26670081)
Fraktur letters are even more boxy than kanji and Chinese ideographs, it isn't accidental.
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