• threelonmusketeersOPEnglish
    18•13 days ago

    For a “don’t dead, open inside”, the text reads correctly top to bottom, but visual cues (like colouration, horizontal proximity, or vertical separation) lead you to try to read it left to right.

    For a “no safety, smoking first”, the text reads correctly left to right, but visual cues (like colouration or horizontal separation) lead you to try to read it top to bottom.

    • @[email protected]English
      50•13 days ago

      The problem is that the ship picture would be perfectly acceptable on dontdeadopeninside tho

      • threelonmusketeersOPEnglish
        -6•13 days ago

        Would it? A true “dontdeadopeninside” reads correctly top to bottom, and incorrectly left to right. The other way around is a “nosafetysmokingfirst”. They are very different formats :)

        • P03 LockeEnglish
          25•13 days ago

          No, they aren’t. The rule on the community is not that specific:

          Images of text-designs, that are barely readable due to the placement of the words or letters

          Also, the stats on that community:

          • 926 subscribers
          • 7 posts in the last 3 months

          Remind me again why we’re creating a competing community to suck the life out of one that barely gets any posts?

        • @[email protected]English
          9•13 days ago

          That sub wasn’t about technicalities but about signs with an easily confused word order. Yours absolutely qualifies.