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Better alignment for ™ (trademark symbol) #216

Open stephymiehle opened 2 years ago

stephymiehle commented 2 years ago

The current ™ symbol is not raised and could be confused for weird smallcaps or look like a typo. This appears on both the Google Fonts version and the Public Sans site.

2021-10-20_14-49-51

Proposed Solution

Raised glyph similar to Libre Franklin's implementation

2021-10-20_14-54-34
joeybab3 commented 8 months ago

Not sure if this is still being looked at but I would love to see if this could be added to the font, the current implementation does not fit stylistically, and if anyone has a temporary workaround that would be much appreciated.

kenmcd commented 8 months ago

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and if anyone has a temporary workaround that would be much appreciated.

You can use the Superscript feature in your editor as a work-around. Below is the default settings in LibreOffice. Some applications give you more control over the size and placement than others do.

Trademark-Superscript-work-around

Would be better if this can be added to the font properly.

joeybab3 commented 8 months ago

That's what I landed on as well, not ideal since we are on the web and some types of inputs do not support custom html but for those that do, surrounding the symbol in a superscript tag works