Tech Insider take on Shape Rotation vs Wordcel discourse 🀣 ... Pointing out that human identification of objects is generally invariant to rotation & reflection, but letters aren't - so Wordcels struck the first blow, alienating the best rotators from written language. https://x.com/TechInsider/status/1488661143195467776
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(ikik lots more to the story - other writing systems developed in other parts of the world, all the various historical & modern fonts... and another way of looking at it is that Wordcels give up some of their rotational ability to be the best Wordcels they can be?).

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