[demetrius]

I think "Same Sizer" looks ugly because characters are stretched mechanically, so each line has different width. Ideally, the lines should all keep their widths, and the position should be stretched.

I think a better application of "all words have the same size" principle can be seen in Vietnamese calligraphy, which sometimes combines Latin characters with Chinese-adjacent writing style, e.g. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C4%90%E1%BB%91i_-... (this is written in Latin script split into equal squares)

[pavlov]

Huh. I would never have noticed that your example image is actually in Latin script.

Because I don't read Chinese, anything that looks enough like Chinese seems to mentally go into the bin of "I can't understand this anyway." (I guess in this case it would help if I knew Vietnamese because then I would recognize familiar words and syllables in this calligraphy.)

Fascinating effect.

[jjmarr]

I can read Chinese and still cannot process that image as Latin script. They've turned every letter into a Chinese character component. It makes my head hurt.

[Scene_Cast2]

I still can't read it despite trying.

[demetrius]

The page below, in the “Summary” section, has a version in normal font, starting with “Tân niên”

(Also, interestingly, there is a version in Chinese characters. Looks like the whole phrase is a borrowing from Classical Chinese? Probably the readers know the phrase as set expression, so it's easier for them.)

[yorwba]

It does not help that "hoa" is stylized as something resembling の口亽.

[bradrn]

Along similar lines, the calligraphy here is quite impressive: https://www.reddit.com/r/language/comments/1gmzro8/what_scri...

[qingcharles]

Huh. That's a good way to explain how Hangul works I guess :)

[gwern]

FWIW, I call this approach 'square' writing, and have compiled some links at https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/square/index

Probably the most interesting one is the 'Hangulatin' font (https://www.t26.com/fonts/22320-Hangulatin-EN), which is exactly what it sounds like, and unfortunately has been abandoned/linkrotten but you can see a lot of it in the old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0syCsC0_4s

[floppyd]

I really wanted to see the example you linked, but the link is broken

[demetrius]

I don't know why. It works for me.

As an alternative, you can go to Wikipedia and paste File:Đối - Tết 2009.jpg into the search bar.

[rapnie]

I had the problem that navigating the page in firefox almost set fire to my CPU on my 2yr old linux dev laptop. Really liked the visualisations, though.

[bryanrasmussen]

navigating the page in firefox on my 2 year old Mac M1, with about 50 tabs open and a few other applications running including Krita, Chrome, VS Studio, The Terminal, Preview and a couple finder windows gave no problems whatsoever, so maybe they should look at it but not high priority.