Textura Eszett

Nick Shinn
Nick Shinn Posts: 2,371
edited May 12 in Type Design Technique & Theory
My latest project, Puffery,  updates the “Olde English” style of blackletter with Roman-based capitals—providing better legibility for those unfamiliar with the classic Fraktur capitals, and also to enable a neat all-caps setting. So I had to include a suitable capital Eszett, giving it some commonality with the lower case ß.
There are two variants of the typeface—Vintage Capitals (above) and Regular (below).
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  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,073
    edited May 12
    *eine 🧐
    Nice cap eszett! The Regular /U doesn't quite work though, IMHO. The Vintage one seems legible enough to use in Regular, in any case.
  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,371
    edited May 13
    Thanks! No doubt, but I wanted to make the two sets of capitals different, within reason.
    I’ve done the alternates as separate fonts, rather than Stylistic Alternates, for ease of accessibility, so it’s quite easy to mix them.
  • SCarewe
    SCarewe Posts: 65
    Also *Überraschung ;)

    I'm a big fan of the capital ẞ. Great work.
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,073
    Wow! Psychedelic indeed! 🤩
  • Vasil Stanev
    Vasil Stanev Posts: 798
    @Nick Shinn
    Nice work, but I think the cap eszett is too similar to the cap B. I would either make it more different, e.g. with a serious horn in the top right corner, and/or stick to two letters S creatively intertwined as a monogram, and leave the other version as an Opentype alt.

  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,073
    edited May 19
    Nah, they’re all quite unambiguous to me. The implied descender helps.
    Two /S stuck together is a no-go.
    Some of those caps in the bottom line look like they should be aces in some obscure deck of playing cards!

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