I'm looking for a reasonably short text I could handwrite, that will make me draw every bigram (pair of consecutive letter) found in a common list of words. This could help design a handwritten typeface that'd include a useful amount of ligatures/contextual alternates. The idea is that writing a text (even a nonsensical one) should result in a more natural handwriting than simply going through all the bigrams in isolation.
Note that "_" is used below to mark a word boundary, helping us count initial and final letters as "bigrams" since they also warrant a dedicated handwriting variant.
- Uses english words from "popular.txt", found here;
- Uses french words from Lexique 3.83, filtered with Open Lexicon to include 22,315 most common words (based on the "freqlivres" metric);
- The Greedy Set Cover algorithm was implemented using pseudocode from this paper.
(It's kinda slow, give it a minute)