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skosch / Crimson

The Crimson Text typeface
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Stylistic alt for A-ogonek #33

Open katef opened 8 years ago

katef commented 8 years ago

There are two correct ways of attaching ogonek to the base serif of capital A:

a1ogonek

Note this is not an accented letter A; it's a different letter, and the ogonek is part of the letter shape.

Crimson currently attaches in the centre of the stem. I think the style merging with the inner part looks rather lovely, and I wanted to ask for opinions. In particular a lot of fonts treat the characters sloppily, and although Crimson's current attachment is very well done, I think this is an opportunity to show special care for the language.

I'd like to offer this as a stylistic alt.

I've sketched this out (roughly) using aogonek.sc as an example: @skosch What do you think?

aogonek

skosch commented 8 years ago

Hmm, that's weird. I distinctly remember looking at Adam's page on Polish diacritics (i.e. the image you posted above) and putting the ogonek in the middle ... but I have no clue how I arrived at that decision, given that the merged version looks so much more elegant.

I say go for it, and just replace the glyph itself. No need for a stylistic alt, unless you think anyone would make use of it.

I assume you read/speak Polish? On projects like this one it's great to have someone who actually knows languages beyond English!

katef commented 8 years ago

Okay, I'll replace it! Ą never starts a word, by the way, so I think the main use case for a capital form would be either all caps, or with small caps.

I'm English and I'm learning Swedish, but I thought the Polish things seem often neglected, so I just thought I'd learn about them and try to sort them out.