Feature Request: Make capital Fraktur letters look more like Fraktur.

[SyxP]

I'm not sure if you're allowing this "in my opinion, this should be..." request, but is it possible to have an update (or at least a stylistic switch) for the capital Fraktur letters?

In particular some of the letters look very different from the usual Fraktur font, for example: 0x1d516 𝔖, gets rendered looking like a 5 in JuliaMono. This is (somewhat outdated) a popular symbol for denoting the symmetric group.

[SyxP]

Oh, it was changed in https://github.com/cormullion/juliamono/issues/12

[cormullion]

Yes, Fraktur is very hard to do, at small sizes. What do you make of the "𝔖" here? I'd guess at G, or E...

[SyxP]

When I first learned it, I always read it as a G, and took a while (before I discovered detexify) to learn that it was a S. But after years of looking at it, it now already looks like a S, so its hard to unsee. I notice that some other characters look different from the version I have in TeX, but I never really seen them used before, so I didn't know they were different. (The other fraktur symbols I have used is in lower-case.)

While searching around, I found a rather fun read: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/87627/fraktur-symbols-for-lie-algebras

[cormullion]

Difficult for me to imagine that people used to comfortably read this typeface daily 100 years ago...

[cormullion]

I'm making the "S" a bit less like what a 5 would look like in fraktur.

[DanielMGessel]

That one on the right is very nice although, just an opinion, it's a bit \$ ish (yeah, I'm from the states). Ignoring that, quite elegant!

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