you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

It's fairly arbitrary. Many languages write right to left, and some even write up and down. This will affect things like the direction you read books

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [+] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Absolutely. If you learn about visual hierarchy in design, one of the first things that you learn is that those who have language that read from left to right will instinctively look at the top left, across, and top to bottom, in kind of an "F" pattern.

  • source
  • parent