31 March 2010

POD Project - Do you dot your i's?

This month's POD subject was typography. Laurel, the blogger with whom I share this project, gave me three little pages of text about typewriter keyboards. On the back of one of these pages I saw my "point of departure". It was a couple of paragraphs about why we place a dot on the i.
“It has to do with something called ‘minim confusion’. In handwriting, a minim is the small downward stroke used in m, n, i, u, and so on. In early writing there was no dot on the i, and the minims were written almost identically. This could lead to confusion in words containing a lot of minim next to each other.” An example was given: minimum. I loved how it looked without the dotted i's. Can you see the word repeated throughout my piece?


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