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ShubhamSanklecha

What is the difference between the alphabet 'a' with the open aperture and a normal alphabet 'a' with the closed counter?

And what they called? Any specific name?

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Ralf Herrmann

It’s a stylistic choice with different roots in the history of writing. 

The first one is called “two-storey a”, the second is a “one-storey a”. 

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Riccardo Sartori
32 minutes ago, bellefont said:

Is the "two-storey" the same as double story?

Yes, of course, as well as “one-storey" is the same as “single-storey”.

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