@overholt damn that’s excellent!

@overholt maybe but I can only see the bottom line

@overholt I'm fascinated by the presence of numeric digits in the symbols column. I guess even the illiterate are likely to know numbers!

@overholt wouldn't you say the inclusion of an American flag and only an American flag shows a bias towards a certain culture? Not that it's not cool and well designed either, or that it can't be multicultural and still show bias.

@overholt neat!

the actual russian optometric chart looks kinda similar, but restricts itself to 7 letters that all snugly fit their boxes -- presumably to make sure that a person with poor eyesight can't "cheat" by recognizing a letter like А or Х by its overall shape

@overholt Imagine what happens when a future culture tries to use this as a Rosetta stone.

@overholt Wonderful!!!

@overholt Wow, this is such a great chart! I love it, thanks for posting ❤

@overholt it’s awesome! I want one!

@overholt Presumably because there is no simple alphabet list for Chinese, the characters used seem to be phrases, possibly taken from a newspaper or signage. For example, the second row 萬國寶通銀行 (then written right to left) is International Banking Corporation (now Citibank)

@overholt First time I’ve seen an eye chart with an actual eye.

@overholt first column for English, second column for German

@overholt Latin is represented twice - once for English/French, and once for what I'd probably call German (Fraktur).

@overholt That Hebrew / Yiddish one spells "Pain" (כאב) (in Hebrew) on the fourth row from the bottom

@overholt there's so much in this chart! (why the distinction between the blackletter and typewriter font columns? also why are the chinese characters written in three different fonts?!)

@overholt Putting ו and ז right next to each other like that is the real test lol

@overholt The original Snellen chart was created in 1862 by Franciscus Cornelis Donders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snellen_chart

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I actually can real all of them :dy218:
With some difficulty on the second row. Is that what they call “Gothic alphabet“?

@overholt This is most interesting. Didn't thought of this kind of sheet till now.

@overholt Chinese speakers taking the Japanese eyesight test be like: proletariat

@overholt That is really cool actually.