Serif of U+1D12 LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS OPEN O is on the wrong side

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Serif of U+1D12 LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS OPEN O is on the wrong side #1814

Closed dscorbett closed 1 year ago

dscorbett commented 1 year ago

U+1D12 LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS OPEN O should look like U+0254 LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O rotated 90° counterclockwise. The serif is on the wrong side.

Your font version: 24.1.4
Your font variant: Iosevka Slab Extended
Your application using Iosevka: hb-view

Logo121 commented 1 year ago

ok who called the glyph "revSmallCSideways" then? ☹

jmcwilliams403 commented 1 year ago

ok who called the glyph "revSmallCSideways" then? ☹

Open O is typographically a turned C as that's how they were able to save money on wooden or cast-metal typefaces for the early IPA. All they needed for a large amount of new letters was to turn existing ones upside down.

Reversed C is literally a horizontally mirrored C as the glyph was conceived when typefaces were still handwritten;
It's basically the Latin equivalent of the Greek Lunate Sigma/Antisigma.

Logo121 commented 1 year ago

I know what Open O should look like, I was just confused by the preexisting naming in the code and messed the glyph up when trying to fix it.