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12.6 Alignment and Text in Different Cultures |
| - The Alphabet has a vertical-lines-pattern: I I I I I I I I. Note: when the letters are turned we start to move our head, to keep our visual grid aligned, until they are vertical.
- Chinese script
is conform to their tendency for horizontal alignment, writen in a
vertical direction. An interesting article in National Geographic: Chinese, Americans Truly See Differently, Study Says
- Arab script the
spacing between the vertical alignment elements is wider —.—I—.—I—.—
(ويكومي العالميه ).
|  | | The way we read trains our brain in a different way's;
reading from left to right or visa versa, these different automatisms
gives us a different way of looking at things, there is an interesting
on "How Eye Movement and Direction Can Reveal the Truth or a Lie" : link | |
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