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Noto Latin, Greek, Cyrillic
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Add a double-storey lowercase 'g' to Sans and Sans Display #118

Open cssobral2013 opened 5 years ago

cssobral2013 commented 5 years ago

The font Open Sans https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans has a double-storey 'g' whereas Noto Sans and Noto Sans Display don't, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to implement these. This's because Noto Sans and Open Sans are based off of the same font, Droid Sans.

marekjez86 commented 5 years ago

@davelab6 : what do you think? don't need to reply now

and-global commented 4 years ago

It would be great to also have both available in Noto Sans CJK where only the double-story is available. Just posted an issue there: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/issues/164

nizarsq commented 4 years ago

Look like only Notoserif has double-storey lowercase 'g'.

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simoncozens commented 11 months ago

I'm not sure it makes sense to do this. We don't need to support all the different forms of letters in a single font. For other design choices, other fonts are available.

moyogo commented 11 months ago

I'm not sure it makes sense to do this. We don't need to support all the different forms of letters in a single font. For other design choices, other fonts are available.

The International Phonetic Alphabet used to distinguish ɡ U+0261 from the double-storey g U+0067, before the second one was replaced by ǥ (single-storey with stroke through descender) and then by the current ɣ. A couple of other transcription systems have used double-storey g and single-storey g with different meanings as well.

It would be useful in a few cases. However it’s hard to have a standard way of accesing it (any ssXX, any cvXX, maybe hist).