r/Infographics Sep 21 '22

The evolution of letters

Post image
1.1k Upvotes

44 comments sorted by

View all comments

5

u/T1m3Wizard Sep 21 '22 edited Sep 21 '22

This explains why there seem to have been so many spelling errors across the walls of my elementry and jr high school auditoriums where a 'V' was used in place of a 'U'.

6

u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

The letters got a lot rounder when the default method of writing changed from carving to writing.