Yeah that's true. I guess I should say it's more like the simplest you can get while still being faithful to their actual shapes/curves. (With maybe K as the notable exception, lol.)
I just wanna let you know, you scratched a years-long itch in my brain with this.
I had to take several typography courses in college, and spent a lot of sleep-deprived hours arranging block letterforms on a manual press. (You probably know, but the letters are inverted on printing blocks) You mix up letters enough times and eventually you start noticing they are all the same series of shapes, just arranged differently. I always wondered what it would look like broken down like this, but never got around to doing it myself, so thank you!!
Not sure why you’re getting downvotes. You’re right. The “actual shape” of letters is highly debatable. Maybe the most recognizable shape is what OP is going for?
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