Assist to unlock the secrets and techniques of written language by taking part in Glyph

Spot visible patterns in humanity’s many scripts and enhance the science exploring graphical communication with the net sport Glyph, says Layal Liverpool

By Layal Liverpool

STOP studying for a second and as an alternative take a better have a look at the letters that make up every of the phrases on this sentence. What shapes do the totally different letters within the alphabet have in widespread? What makes every letter distinctive?

Yoolim Kim at Harvard University and her colleagues on the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany try to reply these questions. They are desirous about analysing writing and graphical communication programs from all over the world (see image). You will help them by participating within the Glyph citizen science challenge.

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