Ancient greek

>>3189015
My theory is that it served to mark the beginning of words, as in old times they didn't put spaces between words.

Which one is clearer?

kαλαιαιαρχαι

Or

kαλαὶαἱἀρχαί

(Modern editions have kαλαὶ αἱ ἀρχαί)

>>3189728
Looks a bit clearer on the word ending front, but it's really making it hard to not confuse them with accents, unless you use a thrice bigger font size. Using bigger fonts in ancient times would work against the same principle that using spaces between works does: writing space.

>>3189761
>between works
between words*

>to not
not to*

>>3189761
It's just that this particular font uses poorly detailed spiritus and accents. Compare it to times new roman Greek fonts and you'll see.