Too many of these "solutions" stick out like a sore thumb - neither
retaining the rhythm of the capital strokes, not cohesively using the
features of the font. And then at the other end of the spectrum,
versions far too similar to a B to be clear. I do hope we're not hitting
an impasse.
Dave
Yes, I'm in complete agreement here - it needs to be clearly not an
"SS", while still immediately indicating exactly that underlying
semantic to everyone who sees it. We also have the constraint that we
need to slot this into a monospace font. Contradictory requirements,
yes, but we can be as b
There's really nothing more that I can add to this - I think you're
seeing things which simply aren't there. The various suggestions, of
which you feature only three, clearly indicate that they did not feel
constrained by the Fraktur form, and were actively seeking their own,
Roman, solution to
I'm afraid this explanation jumps through hoops as unjustifiable as
those Tschichold used. Again conflating z and ezh, shifting characters
about for no apparent reason, and papering over a complete lack of
similarity in characters. Passing off a distorted 3 as an acceptable
Romanized ezh is sim
A very clear description, but it simply doesn't match the form they are
promoting. It conflates a z with an ezh - two completely different
shapes, and makes reference to features which simply aren't present. I'd
go as far as to say it's a explanation as fallacious as Tschichold's.
A long-s-ezh
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. The 1903 Sulzbacher Form,
effectively a thorough romanization of ß, *is* intended to be derived
from a long-s+short-s ligature.
It's Fraktur forms which were almost invariably long-s+z or long-s+ezh
forms. It's on *this* point that Tschichold was flatly wr
Some people seem to be reading too much into my description of ß as a
ligature. A ligature is the joining of any two or more characters -
whether the joined setting can be sensibly decomposed into its
constituent parts or not. The ampersand, of example, is a ligature, but
no-one would suggest t
I'm afraid you're not correct - the modern ß *is* a straightforward,
compact, and clear ligature of long-s, short-s.
The fact that at some stages through history words were spelt otherwise
(s-s, s-z, s-ezh) doesn't detract from the origin of the *current* shape
of the character.
Dave
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To be clear, I absolutely respect typographic diversity, and certainly
don't regard ß as a foreign particle. However, I also have respect for
the necessity, diversity, and history of ß, which is why I don't find
the Dresdner Form of the capital visually acceptable.
ß is a simple and elegant joi
I think we're agreed that we should have *something* in that slot, but
not agreed that it necessarily be a strange and distorted "big" version
of ß. There is no harm in searching for a solution that's clear,
understood, sympathetic, and elegant.
I'm not a German speaker and even I find the prop
I'm not a designer, so I too am interested to see if it can be done in
an aesthetically pleasing way. :)
My view is that a good solution needs to not only fit the design of the
font, but also be immediately obvious to German readers as to what it
is, why it exists, and why we've done it.
The t
You're right - we have no idea what diktats we're going to comply with
over the next decade, or how they will impact on the fonts and various
scripts. So, while we should constantly strive to keep the metrics
stable, I have no doubt that we will be forced to make changes to them -
either to fix
Unicode's guidance on U+1E9E reads "capital sharp s is intended for
typographical representations of signage and uppercase titles, and
other environments where users require the sharp s to be preserved in
uppercase. Overall, such usage is rare. In contrast, standard German
orthography uses the stri
The implementation of a Unicode position for this 'character' is quite
bizarre. Some time ago the Unicode Consortium announced that ligatures
of any script should no longer be given code points but should take
identification from the co-joining of the single characters.
The capital Eszett, if t
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