1.5 stories g'
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How did they get from G' to g'? (From Ց' to g' is quite obvious). (The one story formation g')
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I guess making the body small and making the vertical descend.
BTW the highly charming "g" in Urby is worth a mention here:Craig Eliason said:
https://www.typemates.com/fonts/urby
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Ofir Shavit said:How did they get from G' to g'?
Here’s a collection of letter evolutions compiled by Martin Tiefenthaler for his talk at Tÿpo St. Gallen 2011, including one for G→g from Jost Hochuli’s Das Detail in der Typografie.
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Seems clear now, thanks.0
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Basically, in the Latin alphabet, having both uppercase and lowercase was a recent invention - it came about in the Carolingian script, which combined Roman capitals with uncial writing for the lower case. So the lowercase letters had developed independently of the uppercase letters over a long period of time.
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I thought that the bicameral invention was a product of the Renaissance--that it was the humanist scribes of that later period who put together the Carolingian minuscule and the Roman capitals.0
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Here's a slide from Gerard Unger's 2015 Granshan talk on Carolingian minuscules. It appears at 4:24.
Notice the 1.5 stories g...0 -
@Simon Cozens Dunno, the twist at the top of the tail makes me see this as an open-bottom binocular.1
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