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		maxnoe on April 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters This is a form of typographic emphasis also widely used in German Fraktur texts, called Sperrsatz: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperrsatz

HelloNurse on April 2, 2021 [–]

Fraktur letters are even more boxy than kanji and Chinese ideographs, it isn't accidental.

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