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Current Shorthand was developed beginning in 1884 and published as "A Manual of Current Shorthand Orthographic and Phonetic" in 1892 by Dr. Henry Sweet to address the need of a fundamentally legible shorthand system free of obscure methods of efficiency such as line thickness and positioning. Some of the means to this end are shared with the Gregg system, with which Current is contemporary; but Current is more legible yet. It uses more ink than classical systems, and whether or not it is fit like them for sustained verbatim reporting has never been established. Nonetheless, the system also offers a number of other theoretical and practical advantages for what Sweet estimates are 95% of shorthand writers.