How good is your pareidolia?

[oshfdk]

It's interesting that you chose ch as the example, because it seems to prove my point. There is a whole solution theory on this forum that works by treating various ways of misaligning ch as different characters, because ch's are often misaligned and in many possible ways (above/below/overlap or gap).

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And also copying from the same thread a collection from ch's from two folios. As you can see, c and h are not perfectly connected with impossible 0.1mm precision, they just smoothed out into a single curve by the action of wet ink. When the offset is really large, there is a visible step, like in the upper right corner. Wet ink won't allow sharp angles and abrupt steps. Retouching over dry ink most probably can leave sharp angles and visible steps or double lines, as seen in other manuscripts and in the example from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I posted earlier.