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The thing is, this (and craftworks.at or whatever) is still not a fully polished technology.

It probably can be optimized in a bunch of ways:

* Less drastic transitions between accentuated text and the rest

* An ML algorithm to select quantifiably better patterns (with distillation if necessary)

* Enrolling visually- and cognitively-impaired persons (e.g.dyslexics) into the study to avoid undercutting accessibility

We've been doing printing and written/illuminated books for many centuries, and statistical readability studies for the last 80 years or so. If a variation of this technique is better than the existing 'flat' type (even with ligatures), NASA/DARPA/NIH would be investigating it shortly.



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