WebP is so great except it's not

Re:WebP is so great except it's not by AlchemistCamp on Friday December 15, 2023 @08:07AM (#38653768)

I've been writing almost exclusively in cursive for my entire life past age 8 and that font looks crazy to me. I learned both D'Nealian and Zaner-Bloser in different schools and have seen a lot of my grandmother's writing, which was semi-Spenserian.

The stroke just doesn't go in the right direction for those ligatures. My guess is that this font is based on a French (or maybe other latin) script.

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Re:WebP is so great except it's not by xmcqdpt2 on Friday December 15, 2023 @08:38AM (#38654046)

These ligatures are definitely French ligatures. See for example this picture from French wikipedia,

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ligature_typograph...

But also French typographical ligatures (well beyond the syntactic ones that are mandatory) aren't really related to cursives, they are a typographical convention. like the cursive s doesn't look like s and wouldn't have a ligature with t from the top of the t in cursive. (However, at least for French cursives it's common to do a single cross for double tt which I guess is a ligature?)

I also only learned cursives in school. In fact writing in script was forbidden and not taught at all.

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Re:WebP is so great except it's not by capitainenemo on Friday December 15, 2023 @09:48AM (#38654696)

Perhaps the website was designed for a french audience, and an alternate theme not created for the english localisation of this article...

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