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Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
It's a contrived non-solution to a contrived non-problem. A ſs ligature only makes sense in a world where the ſ/s distinction is still present. It's been abolished for good reasons. There i…3 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
I don't see the merit of introducing a ligature for /s_s — after all, the sequence behaves exactly as expected. A vowel followed by a consonant cluster is short by default. Otherwise, you might …1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
John, good argument with Ue and Ü. Ue was a crutch and is no longer needed now that Ü is available; same with SS and SZ. I disagree with your design proposals, though. Since ß is a monolithic glyph r…1 -
Re: Caster (serif, for text, multiscript)
I really like the organic lines, chunky texture and down-to-earth stability of this. Reminds me of Mrs Eaves. Would be a pity to hide it in tiny captions! :grimace: «Caster» as in spellcaster? It doe…2 -
Re: Pro fonts with Cyrillic support
Personally, I don't feel it's justified to punish minority languages by charging them extra for typographic support, especially given that the globally fixed prices of typefaces already ren…7
