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In Turkish language, half of the most frequently used letters (u, l, r, ı, i, n) are narrow and vertical. Narrow letters create legibility problems and vertical strokes result in vertical emphasis on typographic texture. Big counters can create more legible letters. In order to achieve this, increasing the x-height is a common practice. However to prevent ascenders and descenders from being too short, rather than increasing x-height, the letter width was enlarged.