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WCDT Strips 3481 to 3485 (15-19 May 2017)
Neko_Ali:
It is clear that Jeph's Butts Disease is acting up again. Maybe there was a full moon out when he wrote this script.
Bollthorn:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 18 May 2017, 08:27 ---It is clear that Jeph's Butts Disease is acting up again. Maybe there was a full moon out when he wrote this script.
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I see what you did there :wink:
But yes, dat ass :3
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Akima on 18 May 2017, 00:53 ---
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 17 May 2017, 21:07 ---By the 60s, the printing technology still meant that the quality of the inks and paper meant the inks were prone to running and so capitalised letters still kept their legibility.
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Curiously, I have read that research into the legibility of text demonstrated that all lower-case text was easier to read in poor print quality, since it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms.
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It depends, as many companies tended to be "draw up, scale down" in their operations, so it was basically who would scale down the lettering and keep it legible. Marvel had more success than DC did for some time.
I mean, the technology has improved in leaps and bounds since the days of pulp paper and runny ink printed en-masse. Today, lettering is done by computers and the materials are significantly better than they were.
I think I know the research you've read, and it does make a fair point, but another study suggested that readability decreased with length of sentence. Rather, the idea is that caps worked fine for a visual medium like comics, but you go for mixed case for something like a novel.
But the idea of all uppercase standing for shouting is actually a recent phenomenon, with the rise of emails and the internet in popularity in the last couple of the 90s. Before that, it was considered a more polite, though uncommon way to write things, especially for left-handed writers, architects and people with horrendous hand-writing.
fayelovesbubbles:
Bubbles definitely has a nice, dare I say, bubble booty.
izerth:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 18 May 2017, 08:50 ---But the idea of all uppercase standing for shouting is actually a recent phenomenon, with the rise of emails and the internet in popularity in the last couple of the 90s. Before that, it was considered a more polite, though uncommon way to write things, especially for left-handed writers, architects and people with horrendous hand-writing.
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The rise of the email in the 60s and 70s actually reduced the conception of caps as shouting, since early computers often did not have the option of lower case. The first known use of caps as shouting is from 1856 in the Washington DC newspaper the Evening Star, well before the internet.
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