[nubero]

The german signboard was a good real-world example that I happened to see for myself, that’s why I included it. It is a perfectly fine example of the sort of phenomenon I was talking about. The fact that this particular example was a signboard doesn’t alter the fact, that the same applies for buttons on user interfaces for example. On the Macintosh Prototype, there was apparently a “Do It” button that some test users read as “Dolt” (idiot), so it was changed to “OK”. I also didn’t “study fonts in school”, I’m a typographer. And if my arguments are not enough to convince you, you can look at what others said: https://x.com/espiekermann/status/1775993252736372738