@ultem Most comments remarking on readability have all said #2 was more readable. Personally I find them both readable and would have expected people to vote for #1 but you are literally the only person who has.

@ultem @freemo (1) is definitely more readable for Germans, (2) is more readable for French

@thomate

Interesting, I wonder why.

@ultem

@freemo @ultem (1) is Germanic handwriting, (2) is Latin handwriting

@thomate

While I have no doubt germns tend to use #1 I'm a bit skeptical if #2 is associated strictly with romance languages. In terms of scripts as far as I know #2 is rooted in Roman scripts, form #1 is more common among Gothic scrips.

@ultem

@freemo @ultem Uhm, isn't that kind of what I said? Germanic handwriting tends to descend from Gothic script, Latin from Latin script.

@thomate

Well I'm not sure really. My point is the latin scripts seem to be a mix of both. It is only when gothic and roman scripts differentiated we saw a clear division. So the point im correcting on is that it isnt latin based scripts that use the capital A form but rather the Roman basesd scripts.

I just cant speak for what languages use gothic scripts, you might be right there and its limited to germanic countries.

@ultem

@freemo @thomate
I did not follow your entire conversation, but please have three German cursives

(1) Kurrent (variants from 1500-1900)
(2) Sütterlin (taught in schools 1915-1941)
(3) Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift (1969 developed, taught since then in some states)

Notice how the A changes to match the Latin.

@freemo
In Western Europe, where there's not many language groups, I think the distinction is Germanic/Romance languages for the different scripts. And Celtic script and handwriting is in another group altogether.
@ultem

@thomate

Fair, in the modern day germanic vs romance languages would be the major division we tend to see. Well at least for western languages, the east is its own thing entierly.

@ultem

@thomate @ultem @freemo I'm (2) squad

@Sheepy

That seems to be the overwhelming preference. I am really surprised, I expected #1 to win honestly :)

@ultem @thomate

@freemo @Sheepy @ultem @thomate It looks more like the printed letter in shape

@slowfallinward @freemo @thomate @ultem To me the first A looks like a theta

@Koishi

I could see that.. My cursived greek is a bit rusty though :)

@ultem @slowfallinward @thomate

@freemo @ultem @slowfallinward @thomate to be honest, I'm also sick of seeing thetas because I'm a math student so it's something I have in the background of my brain at any given time... it's not like "oh yeah it looks like theta if you're imaginative!" it's like "oh god no is that a word of a formula"

@Koishi

Down with Theta! Fuck theta, fuck em right in the ear :)

@ultem @slowfallinward @thomate

@slowfallinward @freemo @Sheepy @ultem Yeah, modern printing settled on mostly Latin forms