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Lora fonts — serif family for text. Variable Open Source Font
http://www.cyreal.org/fonts/lora/
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Increase descender of ц and щ letters (Bulgarian Cyrillic set only) #63

Open Hatshepsut71 opened 1 year ago

Hatshepsut71 commented 1 year ago

Hello,

Is it possible to increase descender of small letters ц and щ in Bulgarian Cyrillic set only, as in the picture bellow (marked with red rectangles)? Now descender in Lora font is such as the glyphs in standard Cyrillic set, but in Bulgarian set these letters are similar to letters и and ш (marked with green rectangles on the picture). Increasing descender would add more difference between these letters and will improve reading.

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alexeiva commented 1 year ago

Generally I have seen Bulgarian ц with same-length descenders as in Standard. I haven't seen longer descenders in BGR forms. However there is a Historic Cyrillic shape Cyrillic Long Legged De uni1C81 (4th from left):

Screen Shot 2023-07-07 at 13 41 44

I am not sure I would elongate the BGR descenders, because in Italic they share the same glyphs, and will be out of place.

Do you have any more samples of this design idea?

Hatshepsut71 commented 1 year ago

I mean normal style only, italic style looks OK for me. The font in the screenshot above is called "Moderato A5", see the text in this site: https://cyrillic.bg/manifest/ But this font is commercial: https://localfonts.eu/shop/cyrillic-script/bulgarian/bulgarian-cyrillic-serif/moderato-a5/

Another example with longer descenders (I don't know the font name): kupuлuцa

Hatshepsut71 commented 1 year ago

Another variant of descender, it's very rare, but elegant and comfortable for reading: 401230519_741581154680517_1685917236312971057_n

I don't know the font name.

alexeiva commented 1 year ago

Another variant of descender, it's very rare, but elegant and comfortable for reading: 401230519_741581154680517_1685917236312971057_n

I don't know the font name.

This is Alice, our font. http://cyreal.org/fonts/alice/

Thank you for the samples. I see that the Bulgarian ц has longer descenders. This looks like a new trend for Bulgarian Cyrillic. Haven't seen this before. I think this applies only to serif fonts.