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topological-modular-forms / Darwin-Typeface

This is the project repository for Darwin, a typeface for books and articles, with a focus on scientific writing.
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Design of italics for West African orthographies: Ƒ, ƒ, Ʋ, ʋ #39

Open topological-modular-forms opened 4 months ago

topological-modular-forms commented 4 months ago

Sir Cornflakes notes:

In the support of West African orthographies the design of italics becomes a bit tricky because of the letters F with hook (uppercase Ƒ, lowercase: ƒ) and V with hook (Upper case Ʋ, minuscule: ʋ). A way to deal with this is carefully choosing the shapes of italics for f, v, and subsequently also w, see Knappen 1993. Fonts for Africa: The fc fonts. TUGboat 14, 104–106.