Unsettling capital letters
The post notes that adults "fucking hated" the ladder E. Does anyone else find it creepy, or just me? I can't explain exactly why.<p>As the alphabet develops in the replies, it loses some of the creepiness and gains something else. Not friendliness exactly, but.... not sure. Something.<p>I think the first ladder E is creepy partly because it's unexpected, and is placed among normal letters. It's a cuckoo, an interloper, alien.<p>Others have pointed out similarities with some machine learning outputs. I was reminded of the spooky, spidery lettering from fashion GANs, e.g. check out what happens to the text "bisou" and "100% love machine" in [0] taken from [1].<p>[0] <a href="https://images.deepai.org/converted-papers/2007.10947/figures/f_attgan_fashion_title.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://images.deepai.org/converted-papers/2007.10947/figure...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://deepai.org/publication/garment-design-with-generative-adversarial-networks" rel="nofollow">https://deepai.org/publication/garment-design-with-generativ...</a>