Arthur Charpentier on Nostr: "When we read type we imagine that we read the whole of the type — but that is not ...

"When we read type we imagine that we read the whole of the type — but that is not so; we only notice the upper half of each letter. You can easily prove this for yourself by covering up the upper half of the line with a sheet of paper, and you will not, without great difficulty, decipher a single word. Now place the paper over the lower half of a line, and you can read it without the slightest difficulty" https://archive.org/details/strand-1897-v-14/page/396/mode/2up?view=theater