I know that a lot of typedesigners include down-sized currency symbols to work with the oldstyle numerals, but it always looks a bit odd to me. I feel like it makes sense from a typedesigner's perspective, but it's maybe too unusual for people to actually use it. Do you include them? Do you have examples where it does work?
FS Brabo is one of my favourites, but this £ isn't really working for me. It just seems awkwardly small:
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I agree my current solution looks rather tiny. I might have to adopt something like (x-height + ascender)/2.
The only characters I put in <smcp> are lower case letters.
I’m quite partial to the fully extended, “thorny” sterling, cf Baskerville—how British is that?!—; here in Oneleigh I designed separate Sterling and figures for each of <case>, default (incl. <smcp>), and <c2sc> (All Small Caps):
BTW, that flamboyant supertall £ is quite a sight!
Oh, and Nick, I've always wondered — how do you pronounce Oneleigh? I tend toward [ˈwʌnˌleɪ] in my head...