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Jan 10, 2023·edited Jan 10, 2023Liked by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

"... eliminates redundancy ... allows the communication of a bit of additional information ..."

Since we read left-to-right and up-and-down, having flat surfaces perpendicular to eye movement in effect creates little tabletops for addition stuff to go, instead of eye-poking points. Also, the rectangle is a "box" and we are used to putting things in boxes, and then labelling the boxes.

In short, the rectangles are better! The style is substantive.

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