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adobe-fonts / source-sans

Sans serif font family for user interface environments
https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-sans
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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What are /t_h_e_y etc? #217

Closed projectshifter closed 3 years ago

projectshifter commented 3 years ago

The most recent development builds of Source Sans 3 contain a set of 6 glyphs that look like variations on U+210B ℋ. Their glyph names are case variants of t_h_e_y and t_h_e_i_r, so I’d assume they somehow correspond to the English pronouns they and their. 1) How do you activate them, and 2) why are they handled at the typeface level?

pauldhunt commented 3 years ago

These are experimental ligatures in the discretionary ligatures (dlig) feature that replace gendered pronouns with custom glyphs proposed by Sarah Gephart. These are off by default and can only be activated in the Source Sans fonts by turning on the feature. For more information see: Typographics 2018: Collaborative Digression(s) with Alicia Cheng & Sarah Gephart