Dear mach, I don’t think your arguments are as valid as they seem. Personally I prefer the Dresdner Form of the ẞ but I’m open for facts to convince me. Allow myself to question your points.
1) The Dresden Form does only lean forward or topple, if it is purely designed. As you can see in the image vsz-grauwert there isn’t per se a dark corner top-right. In the special case of the DejaVu family (with a really awful ẞ in its sans variant) it’s the other way round. 2) Of course ß and ẞ could be similar. But they also should differ at such a rate that you could clearly see which one is which. This is valid also for the Duden-Form. 3) Also as an attachment you see all the fonts on my computer that have a ẞ. Most of them are serif and have the Dresdner Form of ẞ, so the images isn’t that objective. But you can compare how the ẞ (not) differs from B and how (not) similar it is to ß. You can also check how it suits to the other capital letters. What I personally see: The difference between B and ẞ is sufficient. And: Whether the ẞ fits to the other letters or not is independent of its basic. More important is its overall design. Oh and I don’t think there’s a either-or between differing from ß and B. The ẞ can differ from ß without any disadvantages in differing from B. 4) I personally think the Dresdner Form ẞ is the most beautiful ẞ I know. – but we should base font design only on opinions, should we? 5) To argue that /ẞ/ is just a variant of /ß/ is the same as to argue /A/ is just a variant of /a/. (See also my second point.) In my opinion you can’t prefer a capital letter form because its similarity to the lowercase one (compare Bb, Dd, Ee, Gg, Hh, Nn, Qq, Rr). The capital case should be recognized, but that’s all. Conclusion: Both shapes could be done bad and well. To decide the ẞ-form we should concentrate on its requirements. These are – as I suppose: • Enough difference between B and ẞ • The ẞ must fit into a row with other capitals • It should be recognised as a capital ß (also if it could be guessed because of the context) As far as I know Andreas Stötzner has researched these requirements and decided for the Dresdner form. Can somebody (in)validate this? Maybe Thorsten? Have you some links why other ẞ-variants were rejected? ** Attachment added: "vsz-grauwert.jpg" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-font-family-sources/+bug/650498/+attachment/1748761/+files/vsz-grauwert.jpg -- Expansion: 'ẞ' LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
