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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Coding in lowercase - references?
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Date: 15 Nov 90 21:33:44 GMT
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>Someone claimed that lower case was better, because our
>eyes are more trained ("used to") to lowercase letters 

Actually, I think it is more because the lowercase letters
have more variance between them, not because we are more
used to them.  For example, t and i are much more different
than T and I.  Similarly for e/f and E/F and so on. Words
like "different" can be recognised just by the shape of
the letters without actually looking at all the letters
themselves, and this leads to greater reading speed.
I also remember hearing that this is the reason for
ligatures.             -- Darren
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