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		Tomte on July 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri That‘s the traditional height, see almost every typeface that‘s used for book printing. Only in the computer world has the excessively long t been dominant.

Macha on July 14, 2023 [–]

And handwriting styles that are commonly taught in schools today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaner-Bloser_(teaching_script)

All have full height t, and predate computers (significantly in the case of the latter two)

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