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Glyph

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An online gaming applet to investigate the shapes of letters.

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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Harvard University, and Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, have designed a gaming applet where players compete to classify the letter shapes of the world’s writing systems. Researchers will better understand how letter shapes evolve to be distinctive and informative thanks to this crowdsourced typology.

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Minimum Age: 13

Languages: English

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