Contextual alternates in latin sans-serif

Grzegorz Luk (gluk)

After three days of prototyping a simple, geometric font (primarily for contextual alternates), I realized that I had almost got Futura   I came up with a humorous comment and realized that Frederic Goudy even commented on it a long time ago a strange era for us...

Nick Shinn

What is your opinion about removing the left hand side of the Lslash diacritic?
(Not really related to your post, just a Polish display-type question.)

Grzegorz Luk (gluk)

Nick Shinn said:

What is your opinion about removing the left hand side of the Lslash diacritic?

something like this looks a bit unusual to me, but it would fit exceptionally well in this typeface (as contextual alternate of course)

Nick Shinn

I suspect the typography of this old album cover was rub-down (Letraset/Mecanorma), with the accented characters not provided on the transfer sheets, but produced by “stealing” accents from, for instance é.
I do think you could take some liberties with your accented characters, in keeping with the “crowded” principle of the typeface design.

Florian Hardwig

For more visual examples of one-sided strokes on Ł, see this Flickr thread, including signs, commemorative plaques, shop fronts, handwritten price tags. I wondered whether it’s acceptable for native readers. Mariusz commented:

Hey, I’m Polish, it’s totally fine, and not weird to us, it’s just more common for older signs (I'd say pre 1980) - I wouldn’t expect it on anything new.

Grzegorz Luk (gluk)

I think, a certain liberty in the treatment of accents (and Lslashes&ogoneks) has a long tradition in Poland. My favorite Lslash on 50 złotych banknote: