Versiculum and Responsorium Unicode glyphs
santiclear opened this issue · 8 comments
Hello, I thought that it would be useful to include support for the 2123 (℣) and 211F (℟) glyphs, which are used to lay out liturgical texts set to music.
Here'se a preview of what they look like in other open source fonts.
Hello @Tantacrul, fancy it? ;)
Yep, I'll get on it.
Just for reference, I've seen more decorative versions of this glyph. But it is probably too humanist, it would not really fit Edwin.
It is surprisingly close to what I was thinking.
I may try a version with the curve on the bottom too.
It looks good. I wonder what it might look like with a curve (or even a rounded ending, like the tip of 2, $ and J) at the bottom, as well. It would give it a more calligraphic quality, which wouldn't be bad for a glyph meant to highlight the beginning of a text section.
On the other hand, as you said commenting the treble clef in your Leland video, context is important, and I am not sure whether such a choice would compliment the rest of the typeface, which is no-nonsense and seems to be using such features in order to help visually distinguishing similar letters (see the difference between the $ and S, or 3 and 8).
Oh, I tried it a day or two ago and thought it looked weird.
I think it's weird because Edwin already has a lot of detail and the additional flourishes are slightly noisy.
It's mainly an issue with the 'R'.
One other thing: I'm making an Italic, Bold and Bold-Italic version of these too. They're even noisier.
I think you are right. Edwin has a lot of detail, but at the same time all that detail is unobtrusive - you basically do not even notice it, you just read the text. The first version is probably the best.
I only wonder whether it wouldn't fit in better with a fully round "hook". But then I have no training in type design.
Added in v0.54