14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
7:34 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:09:21AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Paul Guertin wrote:
> I would love to see a study correlating the serif length on 1 with both
> the age of the writer and the place he or she learned to write. Most
> Europeans write ones with serifs, but while some of them write normal
> serifs, others go full CVS receipt and end up with serifs longer than
> the character they're seriffing.
I (raised in England), in my early 50s:
draw a 1 as simply a vertical stroke, no serifs
draw a 7 without any bar, but did see that being used by some while in middle school
draw an 4 'open', rather than 'closed'
draw 0 variably depending upon context
A 0 usually without slash, occasionaly with a slash when writing code
or it would otherwise be ambiguous (licence codes, etc).
We tended to view the stroked 7 as a Continental practice, but some people adopted it.
As to your question about spaces, I do it as Paul described - a short of shallow bucket.
I (English-born, Aussie-bred) use s short serif and
underline on the "1".
Aha - so you were pulling our legs with your phrasing of the subject.
DF