[latexr]

Regardless of if braille counts as a form of typography, I can see the argument that using it would be against the spirit of the assignment. Because then anyone could make a similar argument about Wingdings¹ or Teranoptia² or any other pictorial font and soon you’re seeing who can “cheat” better, which while a fun exercise does not train the intended “muscles”.

A bit like how you could make the debatable argument that code golf languages³ make the exercise boring and pointless.

Failing you might’ve been a bit much, though. Maybe you should’ve gotten a few points for originality and then from next year on the professor could explicitly forbid braille.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingdings

² https://www.tunera.xyz/fonts/teranoptia/

³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf#Dedicated_golfing_la...

[coolcoder613]

I think you did not understand the challenge. It was not any character in any font on the computer, it was any character that you can, and do, find physically, in real life.

[latexr]

Yes, I know. And pictorial fonts are used in the physical world. I was providing examples for some of those.