There are more terms that you can shake a stick at, and that's before you've got your head around serif vs sans serif.Aside ...

Despite seeing it every day though, psychologists at Johns Hopkins University have found that most people can't recognize, and are often completely unaware that two forms of the lower-case letter g ...

Unlike most letters, "g" has two lowercase print versions. There's the opentail one that most everyone uses when writing by hand; it looks like a loop with a fishhook hanging from it. Then there's the ...

The researchers call the "g" you most likely write an "opentail g" and the more mysterious print form a "looptail g." You'll see the looptail all over the place, including the Times New Roman font.

There are two ways people write the lowercase letter G. The looptail, which we tend to read because it’s used in easy-to-read fonts like Times New Roman, Cambria and Calibri, and in most printed and ...

I changed up the way I write the letter 'a' thanks to a cool girl in my fourth grade class who always used a "double-story a" (which looks like the one you see in this article). I'm hoping my 'g ...

The Johns Hopkins study had three parts. First, the researchers asked 38 adults to list letters that have two lowercase versions. Of the 38 participants, only two people listed the letter G.

In the first, 38 adult subjects were asked to name any letters they could think of that have two different lower-case forms in print. Only two of the 38 named the g, and only one of those was able ...