In many instances new letters were made up to represent a specific sound
in a particular language that wasn't covered by the existing alphabet.
The most obvious example are diacritics - which I would argue the R with
tail is. Many of these characters came to life, particularly in Africa,
during the
It is a joy to see how much emotions can be stirred by something as
seemingly insignificant like a letter design! Irrespective of which is
the prefered version discussed currently, I feel that hardly any of
these sit comfortably with the capital letterforms. My feeling is tha
the reason is precisel
Thorsten - like is too strong a word. I would put it as 'accepting'. :-)
I agree that readers have expectations and that as a commercial type
foundry I have to yield to such expectations to a certain degree. But at
the same time it is our job as designers to improve a situation and I
strongly beli
Paul: indeed what a great idea. Who knows, by the end of this exercise I
might even become an Eszett advocate! ;-)
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Gerhard: I am well aware of how the eszett is applied and how the
preceding vowel is pronounced. I had to learn the eszett rule, and its
many exceptions for four years, one hour a week as part of my training
as a typesetter thirty years ago. I understand that the meaning of the
word changes dramati
Joshua: I am not about to start the entire debate again, but your
conclusion is somewhat offensive. It is just about the entire
typographic community that questions the wisdom of it being long-s and
z, instead of long-s and short-s.
Paul: Yes, movement is good, thank you. And I am not going to ope
Joshua: apology accepted - my reaction was in response to the finality
of your statement. I think, for the time being we agree to disagree and
hopefully my capital versions will be persuasive.
Thank you for your compliment - we're really excited working with the
Canonical team, and of course the c
IMO, the addition of the cap Eszettt was idiotic in the first place. It
is typographically and grammatically incorrect. The eszett is a
lowercase ligature made up of long-s and short-s and, really, is a
historical character. In the past other languages, incl English and
French used to use an Eszett
Denis, I have no problems with people having freedom to decide what's
right or wrong for them, as long as their actions do not affect the
freedom of others. In the case of eszett, I believe that instead of
adding a uppercase version, the Duden folks should have abandoned the
lowercase eszett altoge
soc says: PS: Could we just leave out that ß-hating here? It has nothing
to do with that particular topic here?
I think it has very much to do with the topic at hand. It is about
quality. As much as some people argue that a specific cap eszett should
be designed we should equally consider the oppo
soc, please don't take my arguments as a personal affront.Like yourself,
I have a strong opinion about this glyph - and I guess being Swiss
doesn't help, since we would prefer to put this character into a
parallel universe and then close the space-time rift forever.
As I can't do much about the Un
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