Bruno: if you like the ẞ glyphs in Old Standard, Calluna and M+, I’m sure we’re on the right track. :-)
I’m not so sure, on the other hand, how helpful the sometimes heated debates about ſS vs. ſʒ vs. ſ3 really are. These debates raged in Germany for years, the different sides dug in, but in the end, type designers found solutions that worked for their typefaces. While ideologues are interested in defending their respective points, type designers are interested in selling their commercial typefaces and seeing their free typefaces embraced. In other words, type creators appear to be motivated by what consumers of type expect — rather than what they *ought* to expect. Perhaps the pragmatic record established by type creators might be a better guide than prescriptive views. Regarding the idea that widely used forms of the ẞ “stick out like a sore thumb”: would it be at all possible that this may be at least somewhat influenced by how much (or how little) a writer is used to reading German text in general? Trajan’s Column does not include a Þ, either. I’m sure many non-Icelanders might think of the first Þ they encounter as something that “sticks out”. Icelanders don’t seem to have this problem, though, and type designers who create typefaces for Western European languages usually yield to local expectations. Shouldn’t Austrians and Germans expect the same? -- Expansion: 'ẞ' LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
