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by Topology1 22 days ago
Perhaps I'm alone on this, but I find all the different colors and diagrams distracting rather than helpful. It feels cluttered to me.
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For me it iſ the old timey eſſ that iſ moſt diſracting.
I'm slightly baffled it existed in the first place, considering they also used the small s, and it looks almost exactly like the f. To be fair, I am equally confused that so many modern typefaces don't distinguish I and l.
I ſuſpect the uſers of ye olde ſ were/are all liſping.
Yeah, why bother updating the diagrams but then do long s throughout?