Position of combining ogonek in sans serif types

James Puckett
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I’m trying to decide on a position for the ogonek in a sans serif typeface that has combining accents. For example, in h should the ogonek be attached to the right stem like in a or centered under the letter? In serif fonts they’re centered but in that case the ogonek attaches to the serif which looks a lot better than an ogonek just floating under the gap between the stems.
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Realistically, ogonek is unlikely to be attached to anything other than a vowel. But I would always attach it towards the right side of a letter.0
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Centered. It's used that way for an indigenous North American language but I forget which one.0
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Ray Larabie said:Centered. It's used that way for an indigenous North American language but I forget which one.
sort of offtopic, but I can't help myself: I recommend Windtalkers, a heroic war movie about Native American involvement in WWII and the codes the US government based on Native languages.
I generally turn to Wikipedia when I am uncertain what the right way is. Ogoneks there are attached in the bottom middle of O,o, for example, at least as far as I see.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogonek
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Ray Larabie said:Centered. It's used that way for an indigenous North American language but I forget which one.
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