On her majuscule’s secret service
by CarolineI promise the bad play-on-words titles will stop. Actually, I don’t promise that at all.
Did You Know . . . *
Capital and lowercase letters are formally known as majuscules and minuscules, respectively.
This history of typeface gives a great walkthrough of eras and the subtle changes made to common type over the years.
And the difference in readability based on character descenders (the tail on a p) and ascenders (the tail on a b) is explained in this tongue-and-cheek criticism of Roman characters in Japanese fonts.
* I should just adopt this as a disclaimer when there are really, really nerdy things on the way
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