At 05:26 PM 2/18/2007, Bruce K H Kau wrote: >I believe that there is really is a upper/lower case arabic number set, >but it is not used as much these days, mostly because of the computer. > >However, the only differences I recall is the "1" is 1/2 size, and looks >like a short capital "I"; the "0" looks like a lower case "o", and the >"9" was a descender character, with the baseline being on the bottom of >the circle part of the "9".
We have had this part of the discussion before. You're talking about what are often called old-style or lowercase figures, as opposed to the lining figures most of us are familiar with. In many old-style sets, the 1, 2, and 0 are the same height as a lowercase x; 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 are descenders like lowercase j; and 6 and 8 are ascenders like lowercase f.
Many PC and Mac fonts can be purchased with old-style figures in addition to the usual lining figures.
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