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if you remove half of every letter, which half leaves the words most legible? top? bottom? left? right?

@Felthry For the latin script, for English, IMO deleting the left half of each letter retains the most readability, but it'd definitely still be confusing.

@fibonacci_reminder does it depend on font though? That's what I thought you meant at first by "it depends on script"; especially it would be different between serif and sans-serif fonts I imagine (cursive is another matter entirely)

@Felthry That makes sense. I imagine it would vary based on that as well.

@Felthry if it has to be split by a single line, do it diagonally from bottom-left to top-right

otherwise you could just chop off enough end bits to equal out to the remaining letter, but at that point it'd be more like a weird font

@Felthry I think generally the top half?

I've been able to read entire sentences from the very tops of letters because I was slowly scrolling them because I was anxious about the message itself.

@Felthry *goes to clagnut.com/blog/2380/ and grabs a few pangrams for tests*

Not 100% sure I got where the divisions were correctly, but...

(cw: alcohol on one of these)

test pangram text (cw: alcohol, caps) 

@Felthry

sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

MY EX PUB QUIZ CROWD GAVE JOYFUL THANKS

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER A LAZY DOG

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