I'm actually not making that assumption. I think it would be easier for my eyes if they did have the same transformation, but they clearly don't. My problem is that it's an impossible transformation!
If you place a piece of paper on your screen, as a horizontal reference line, you'll see the bottom (vertical) portion of the T is aligned with the left of the I. It extends all the way down. The top left of the T is also aligned with the left of the I. I don't see how this is possible.
The only way this is possible is if T has a longer horizontal line, which why it looks odd to me, a sort of "duck or woman" effect alternating between "is it left or center aligned", depending on if you look at the top or bottom, with the usual assumption that the characters would have the same height.
You're right, but I guess it would have looked even weirder to have the bottom of some letters at a very different height on the screen depending on their shape.
I'm actually not making that assumption. I think it would be easier for my eyes if they did have the same transformation, but they clearly don't. My problem is that it's an impossible transformation!
If you place a piece of paper on your screen, as a horizontal reference line, you'll see the bottom (vertical) portion of the T is aligned with the left of the I. It extends all the way down. The top left of the T is also aligned with the left of the I. I don't see how this is possible.
Here's an image with T translated over to I, to demonstrate: https://imgur.com/a/aSJeYxT
The only way this is possible is if T has a longer horizontal line, which why it looks odd to me, a sort of "duck or woman" effect alternating between "is it left or center aligned", depending on if you look at the top or bottom, with the usual assumption that the characters would have the same height.