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adobe-fonts / source-serif

Typeface for setting text in many sizes, weights, and languages. Designed to complement Source Sans.

https://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-serif

SIL Open Font License 1.1

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Support for ℟ and ℣ #52

Open SirPL opened 5 years ago

SirPL commented 5 years ago

I would like to ask for addition of two barred glyphs:

℟ Response (U+211F)
℣ Versicle (U+2123)

Usage

Those glyphs are used in latin liturgical books of Roman Catholic Church. They indicate change of person in a dialog.
Interestingly, in various books the small-caps variants of those glyphs are used, yet none of a typeface supporting ℟ and ℣ provides smcp variants.
Both glyphs are (almost) always succeeded with a period.

A bar shape

There are three main bar shapes used in books:

L-shaped (like in Times New Roman)
J-shaped
integral symbol ∫-shaped

Examples of glyphs

Glyphs present in Charis SIL Regular typeface
℣ occuring multiple times (i.e. on the very bottom) in Antphonarium Romanum, 1769
A page of Breviarium Romanum, 1888
Another example of ℣ (also on the very bottom of the page) in Graduale Romanum, 1961
A page of Graduale Simplex, 1975

frankrolf commented 5 years ago

Thanks for this detailed report. I will consider the addition of this glyph in a future release.

FWIW, in my own research, I found small-cap height ℟ and ℣ characters in the fonts EB Garamond and Old Standard TT: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/eb-garamond https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Old+Standard+TT