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by drobilla 5230 days ago
Making a modern condensed character set is a nice idea, but this is a really, really bad execution.

Many letters are the exact same shape, shifted vertically 1/5th of a character height? A-E are completely identical but for position. This is terrible enough to be a show-stopper on its own.

Braille has all the advantages of this, but is FAR more readable, since each letter has its own distinct shape. You say in a different thread that "Braille has the same proportional shortcomings as normal text". This is false. Braille characters are a grid of a fixed number of dots (6 or 8), and every character is the same size. It also has numbers, punctuation...