1.5 stories g'

Ofir Shavit

How did they get from G' to g'? (From Ց' to g' is quite obvious). (The one story formation g')

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

I guess making the body small and making the vertical descend.

Craig Eliason said:

BTW the highly charming "g" in Urby is worth a mention here:
https://www.typemates.com/fonts/urby

Nick Shinn

Florian Hardwig

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.

Ofir Shavit

Seems clear now, thanks.

John Savard

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.

Craig Eliason

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.

Simon Cozens

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...

Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian

@Simon Cozens Dunno, the twist at the top of the tail makes me see this as an open-bottom binocular.