[AdmiralAsshat]

> Set in all capitals, the word NEXT is sometimes confused with EXIT possibly because the EXT grouping is so dominant. A combination of capitals and lower case letters alleviates this problem.

Huh. Never knew why the 'e' was lowercased until now. I thought it was just "style".

[fsckboy]

looks like they lowercased the e to do a better job of evoking bobby indiana's

   LO
   VE

sculpture, with tilting for good measure

[mmooss]

Nice insight. Maybe Indiana and Rand were both influenced by a third source?