On 6 Jun 2012, at 08:55, Szelp, A. Sz. wrote: > but it's Michael himself who's recognized that "Teuthonista suffers from a > good deal of extraordinarily bad typography", which shows us, that the > different stroke weight distribution is actually just "bad typography".
This is incorrect. Teuthonista clearly stretched a Latin x. This is obvious from the way that it has one or two long legs, with or without hooks or curls. Teuthonista did not use a greek chi and deform it with a short leg and with hooks and curls. Bad German/Austrian/Swiss typography attempting to render (in lead type) Teuthonista's stretched x sometimes substituted Greek chi for it because printers had those in their sorts. But Teuthonista's stretched x is just that -- a Latin x, stretched -- and it is not a Chi, either a Latin Chi or a Greek Chi. So, the stretched x must be taken out of the equation. Then you are left with Lepsius curly Greek chi with a giant capital, and the IPA's Times-like Chi with chi-weight and not x-weight. Those two should and could be unified. And disunified from Greek chi. > — actually quite similar to something we've seen with Cyrillic reform > orthographies (eg. the gha derived from a handwritten old q, which got > encoded misnamed as "OI") of the 20-30ies and the chinese tone letters > derived from numbers/latin/cyrillic type. This is also incorrect. The OI/GHA character is distinct from q in Cyrillic orthographies. it's not just a badly-drawn q. They designed it as ƣ on purpose. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
