I have created this glyph:
It is a combination of the top of an x and the tail of a g. It was intended to be a latin letter gamma (ɣ) made more roman and less like a greek letter gamma (
γ). But I think it turned out to be more plausibly a variant of an insular g (ᵹ) or possibly a yogh (ȝ), although the resemblance is far fetched. I've even played with the thought of it being a visigothic z (ꝣ).
The point is: I like the glyph, but I don't know where to put it. Do you have any ideas? Have you seen a similar glyph before? What did it represent?
Comments
This looks suspiciously close to the l.c. ksi in Peter the Great’s ‘Civil Type’:
Source: Sankt-Peterburgskie vedomosti [‘St. Petersburg Record’]. Addendum of Friday, 4 January 1734.
My conclusion: I think we should turn this around, invent more letterforms and apply for Unicode slots for them ;–)
@Maxim Zhukov. Whoa, I had no idea the Cyrillic Letter Ksi (ѯ) could look like that! I did have a suspicion, that the caron-like shape on the top was not a diacritic, but more of an integrated part of the letter. But I wouldn't have guessed, that someone would see that part as central to the glyph, and leave the rest as a squiggly descender. Nice picture sample too, thank you!
@Albert_Jan_Pool Sounds like a cool way to go about it. So I should find a specific use for this symbol, make it popular, and thereby create the demand for a Unicode codepoint for it
Photo courtesy of Danila Vorobiev.