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skosch / Crimson

The Crimson Text typeface
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Missing Æ and Œ smallcaps #34

Open katef opened 8 years ago

katef commented 8 years ago

The ae.sc and oe.sc glyphs look like placeholders, and need to be drawn properly.

katef commented 8 years ago

In Roman, what's ae.sc.alt01 supposed to be?

skosch commented 8 years ago

Not sure what that placeholder thing is, sorry. I don't remember making it, but then I don't remember much that happened five years ago.

I suppose an appropriate use would be a ligated small cap Æ, whereas the regular small cap is a broken-up AE. Thoughts?

katef commented 8 years ago

I don't think that would suit e.g. Danish, where I think Æ must be a ligature. My hunch is for both ae and ae.sc to be ligatures, else why provide them in the first place?

skosch commented 8 years ago

If I had to guess, I probably got the justification for breaking them up from some long gone ivory-tower Typophile thread. I don't recall what it was exactly.

You're absolutely correct about Scandinavian orthographies requiring them though, so it's Kate 1, Seb 0. (Well, probably more like 5-0, by now.)

katef commented 8 years ago

Us 6, World 0 :)

katef commented 8 years ago

Too heavy at the joints?

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skosch commented 8 years ago

Maybe, by the slightest bit? I don't see anything wrong with it besides that though.