Valerie is a 42-year-old, single, Reformed Christian lady who lives in Baltimore. She doesn't remember a time
before she knew and loved Jesus, but she does remember accepting John Calvin into her heart in March of 2000.
Valerie is a member of Christ Reformed Evangelical Church in Annapolis.
Though her career aspiration is to be a housewife, Valerie has not yet found anyone suitable who wishes to hire
her for employment in that field (or, more properly, anyone suitable has not found her), so in the meantime she
earns her daily bread working in communications -- editing, writing, print design and website management.
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Probably no one out there will find this anywhere near as fascinating as I do, but a type designer has put together this chart showing the relative frequencies with which various letters appear adjacent to one another in the English language. Here's his explanation of how the chart works
I have a dream of trying my hand at type design someday, so I was excited to find Typophile today and have been delving into its forums. The chart would be helpful for a designer to know which letter pairs are more common and make design decisions appropriately -- who cares if your xe joins great if your th looks dreadful?
Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 3:29 PM
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On September 16, 2008 7:02 PMpentamomwrote... Did you notice the designer's name is Hrant? What a delicious irony!
On September 17, 2008 7:06 PMAnonymouswrote... Google "digraph frequency" for lots more on the subject; it's been a staple of code-breaking (and -making) for centuries.
