From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon May 07 2007 - 17:13:38 CDT
At 13:34 -0700 2007-05-07, John Hudson wrote:
>Having spent the last half hour sketching
>uppercase eszett forms based on trying to
>crowbar the lowercase form into the proportions
>of uppercase letters, I'm inclined to think that
>this is a thoroughly rotten approach to creating
>an uppercase letter. Relatively few Latin
>uppercase letters look like big versions of
>their lowercase counterparts, and there are
>sound graphic reasons for this that can be
>deduced from palaeography.
See
http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/sharp-s.png
where I have given an F, J, U, ß, long-s, and two
capital sharp esses. The second of these is the
one under ballot, made in discussion with Andreas
Stötzner, who suggested taking the stroke and
curve of the U and the finial of a J. I don't
find it unpleasant or inappropriate. I tried
hacking one based on an F but I like the U-based
one better.
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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