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by hoosieree 649 days ago
This struck me as well. There seems to be something magical about finding a good aesthetic within the router's constraints (sharp intersections but rounded line endings).

It fits with my theory about why APL's glyphs look "better" to me than newer unicode-based symbol languages like (BQN, Uiua, etc). I think it's because APL's symbols were developed to be hand-written on chalkboards. Those constraints are much more severe compared to a purely computer-based font.