Hi Typedrawers,
I started to make a rough collection of suffixes for glyph names (e.g. .sc).
It would be great if you would provide other suffixes or sources where to find them. This is what I have so far:
small caps:
.sc
.smcp
.small
small
oldstyle figures:
.osf
.oldstyle
oldstyle
tabular figures:
.tf
proportional figures:
.fitted
tabular oldstyle figures:
.tosf
.taboldstyle
superiors:
.sups
.superior
superior
inferiors:
.inf
.inferior
inferior
numerators:
.numerator
.numr
denominators:
.denominator
.dnom
case accents:
.case
.cap
c2sc:
.c2sc
Comments
FWIW when I made Suffixer I was wondering too what a good starting point would be for presets; I ended up populating the list with endings that would correspond to OT feature names, which I got the impression is a somewhat popular thing to do. I know this is far from “complete” (whatever that means in this context) but it seemed like a useful (and logical) selection to start with.
For numeral styles, though, I use abbreviated alignment/spacing suffixes: .OP, .OT, .LP. .LT as appropriate, depending on which style is default in the font (and .SP and .ST if including smallcap numerals).
I use .cap for uppercase mark forms, and reserve .case for all-caps punctuation or other variants accessed via the OTL {case} feature.
@Nina Stössinger: I assume that these will differ between designers/foundries.
On the one hand I would like to find out if there is something like most common suffixes, on the other hand such a list would help (at least me) to apply e.g. python scripts to a broader range of glyph names on default without the need of a user input for example.
If anyone will add stuff still, it would be great if she/he could add a few words, because mentioning only the suffix could be difficult to comprehend in certain cases.
This is used for Catalan, when the /ldot character is keyed “l periodcentered”.
I suppose I could have named it “.cat”
quoteright.grek
Used for Greek quote mark that looks like the smooth breathing diacritic.
Of course, I could have labelled these “.alt”, which is what I usually do, but the more specific terminology helps me identify what the glyphs are for, especially as they are identical, in terms of BCPs, to other glyphs.