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Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
I don't see a reason to make an oldstyle typeface look more anachronistic than necessary just because it is used to typeset German. It's not like the readers of any of your German-speaking customers …4 -
Re: Preview: Lindau – to become a family
I'm very fond of the light cut. The Bold and the Italic tend a bit into comical territory; I'm getting a subtle «Rocky Horror Picture Show» vibe from them. Perhaps this is intentional? If not, maybe …1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
There is never a need to differentiate between lc and uc ß, they occur in complementary contexts. They just have to look good among other lc and uc, and to be fair, ẞ does a much better job at this t…1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
We probably don't urgently need the names, but if we want to refer to a coherent bundle of design aspects that take a paragraph to describe otherwise, I'd say a name comes in handy. :grimace: A lot o…1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
I'd also like to point out that many of these historic, pre-official versions of ẞ look reasonably good, fit well into context, and are instantly legible without requiring a national re-education pr…1
