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I think it has something to do with uncanny valley. Just like how distorted human faces look unsettling, this is the same mechanism.

The letters are deeply rooted in our interpretation of the world, so when those symbols are distorted, it is a distortion of the whole world itself. I bet it's mostly only native users of the alphabet who are affected like this. Someone who uses it as a second language, e.g. a japanese person, probably doesn't get the same feeling



I get the same feeling when I look at some recently built "distorted" buildings with irregular windows. Here is an example:

https://www.archdaily.com/782889/flower-plus-kindergarten-oa...

Maybe it's linked to trypophobia.


Ha! Those are bizarre. It doesn't make me feel uneasy in the same way, it just looks like something a kid would put together in the Sims.


we like things to be regular, so we don't like things that almost fit regular conventions but break them in some obvious way.


Ugh, I hope someone went to jail for making that.


If a prison was built next to a building like that it could be a part of the punishment to see this building from the prison cell.


These kind of buildings are unfortunately a trend currently.


Agree. I think the horizontal strokes looks like teeth, in particular, teeth you see in horror.




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