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My handwriting changed after getting used to Grafitti. I still mark Xs on forms with the symbol for X (like the K, but mirrored). This is over two decades after the fact.


To this day, trying to hand write an e when printing quickly? Your hand still does a double joined c. And a T is written like a 7. It's amazing how the muscle memory stays with you. It was so simple to learn, and stayed with you. Swype is the first phone writing technique, that has beaten Palm.


> It's amazing how the muscle memory stays with you

It is because it made sense. Not just a convention, the graffiti gestures are a convincing set of compressed (minimal full information, simplest one line per character) glyphs.




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