rotate lowercase epsilon 10° clockwise

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rotate lowercase epsilon 10° clockwise

Opened this issue 8 years ago · 9 comments

ousia commented 8 years ago

The second line shows the corrected epsilon:

In both cases, the uncorrected epsilon seems a counter-slanted glyph to me.

BTW, I only rotated the glyph (spacing and other tuning might be also required).

Answer 1 · 2017-10-26T22:04:58.000Z

@ousia is this fixed in the latest version made this week?

Answer 2 · 2017-10-26T22:43:20.000Z

although I see that your solution gives the epsilon a nice angle and a much more general pace, I have seen old references (and newer ones) with that angle in the glyph so I feel like it works nicely for this style of font. Thanks for the suggestion though! El 27 de octubre de 2017 a las 0:05:01, Dave Crossland (notifications@github.com) escribió: @ousia is this fixed in the latest version made this week? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread. Octavio Pardo Virto Graphic Designer /Type Designer C/ Berriozar 21, Oficina 36, 2º piso 31013 Pamplona SPAIN +34 657 106 116 www.octaviopardo.com

Answer 3 · 2017-10-26T22:50:41.000Z

What do other greek Garamonds look like?

Answer 4 · 2017-10-27T10:45:37.000Z

Historical Greek from Claude Garamond is much different, but here is Garamond Premier Pro from Robert Slimbach:

Answer 5 · 2017-10-28T11:49:48.000Z

Sorry, but I cannot stop seeing a counter-rotated glyph, also with Slimbach’s Garamond.

Would it be possible to have alternate glyphs?

Answer 6 · 2017-10-28T17:17:51.000Z

An alternate sounds like a good solution to me :)

Answer 7 · 2017-10-29T14:37:02.000Z

I think the approach could be the same as the one suggested by @georgd in #2:

For me a cvXX or ssXX feature for an alternate tilde would be fine. I suggest however, not to add an alternate glyph for each of the composed glyphs but instead have the feature decompose the precomposed glyphs and replace the combining tilde by the alternate one. This would be in line with other alternate glyphs like the Greek circumflex where I do the same.

Answer 8 · 2017-10-30T10:10:29.000Z

I will adjust the glyph a liiiitle bit iin later versions El 29 de octubre de 2017 a las 15:37:07, Pablo Rodríguez (notifications@github.com) escribió: I think the approach could be the same as the one suggested by @georgd in #2: For me a cvXX or ssXX feature for an alternate tilde would be fine. I suggest however, not to add an alternate glyph for each of the composed glyphs but instead have the feature decompose the precomposed glyphs and replace the combining tilde by the alternate one. This would be in line with other alternate glyphs like the Greek circumflex where I do the same. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread. Octavio Pardo Virto Graphic Designer /Type Designer C/ Berriozar 21, Oficina 36, 2º piso 31013 Pamplona SPAIN +34 657 106 116 www.octaviopardo.com

Answer 9 · 2020-06-10T11:06:03.000Z

@davelab6 I’ve discovered some images to show this at Wikimedia Commons, hopefully they would give some help. Click Original File to see them clearly when you access the file description page.

Books made with Grecs du roi
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Grecs_du_Roi
A book Illustrirte Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst has a section "Griechisch" (page 570-573) including Greek sample texts with such typeface.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Illustrirte_Geschichte_der_Buchdruckerkunst_(Faulmann)&filefrom=Illustrirte+Geschichte+der+Buchdruckerkunst+%28Faulmann%29+401.jpg#mw-category-media