RE: Dot shapes varying fontwise (was: "Re: The quick brown fox ju mps over the lazy dog")

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António MARTINS-Tuválkin wrote:

>...Typical sans fonts have square dots in the appropriate
>glyphs (U+0021, U+002E, U+003A, U+003B, U+003F,
>U+0069, U+006A, U+00AB, U+00F7, U+00AB, U+0308,
>U+2024, U+2026 et c.), while usual serif fonts
>have them with discs....

Not necessarily. Some widely used sans serif fonts, such as Futura, Letter
Gothic and Gill Sans, have round dots. In some special (and also popular)
styles, such as Zapf Chancery, they're neither round nor square. They're
diamond-shaped.

Donald Figge
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