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Give a child (or anyone) a sheet of graph paper and sooner or later they will use it to write their name.
With a ready made grid that S is easy to draw – the classical S is quite difficult to draw convincingly, type designers probably spend considerably more time on an S (and s) than other glyphs.
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Yeah, I think the graph paper is the key angle here. This spread in an age when if you could, you got graph paper notebooks and not the dorky lined notebooks. Especially if you were into role playing games, as then you could make maps, character sheets, and so on. The S (or ∞ to me) was just a warm-up doodle, much like how some girls made palm tree hearts.
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Never saw it in the 90s in rural Finland.
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Palm tree hearts?
Yeah, it was a sort of fad: draw a heart, then make two palm trees on an island out of them.
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I am not in US and I´ve never saw it.
I just remember that first you draw an “S”.
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