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CatharsisFonts / Ysabeau

Ysabeau: The essence of Garamond in an open-source sans-serif typeface
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Tilde pointing up #57

Open Charlie-Harper opened 9 months ago

Charlie-Harper commented 9 months ago

Hi.

The tilde is rotated a little counterclockwise. I think it should be balanced horizontally.

CatharsisFonts commented 2 days ago

Hi Charlie,

in the spirit of making a sans companion to Garamond, I closely followed the tilde shape from EB Garamond. Admittedly, I don't like it all that much either. I'm thinking of flattening it out.

Cheers, Christian

Charlie-Harper commented 1 day ago

Hi.

Yes, we have the style issue, but even in Garamond, the non-strictly horizontal positioning of the tilde seems a bit odd to a native speaker of a language that uses this diacritic a lot (Portuguese, in my case) — the tilde tends to look like an acute accent. I think this oddity is the same as if we saw this "Garramond-style" inclination also in the circumflex accent, for example.

CatharsisFonts commented 1 day ago

As it happens, I've changed the tildes in the meantime... Do you like them better now?