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Chiara is a decorative font evolved from Chiara regular, with lots of embellishments in ascenders and descenders, Higher caps, chopped-of letters and so on. Thanks to the wonderful/incredible/amazing set of bricks you can find here
(http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/all_composites_saved_in_my_bricks) I could develop a hord of curvy stuff that was incredibly useful.
(djnippa, I love you. Really. XD)
This is still a work in progress, I'm redefinig some characters, and I want to add a new set of alternates to make this more versatile. Feel free to comment whatever you like/dislike.
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http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/all_composites_saved_in_my_bricks
This design now has an elegant appearance and a lovely balance. 10/10
The only thing I would change might be the cross bars of the 'f' and 't', which I would bring down to the x-height. I would also reduce the height of the 't' a little ...
And as always, p2p, thank u for your kindness and support. I'll change that crossbar.
Umbreon126: Much appreciated ;)
Sometime in the 19th century the long 's' was combined with the 'z' that had a cedilla (ȥ as seen in printed Fraktur fonts, unicode 0x0225). It created a sharp sounding 's'. Looking at the development in elmoyenique's image, this explains why the 's' in example 3 looks like it has the upper curve turned to resemble a '3': the 'z' was written with a curved (maybe linked to the cedilla?) tail below the base line, which for some reason then slid upwards except for the descender of the long 's' (this descender continues in handwritten ß ).
A hint to that can be seen in the Kurrent-based font invented in 1911 by Ludwig Sütterlin, who added a curved 's' to be used at the end of words.
(should I have made an error here I hope that beate or other linguistically/typograghically more educated members will correct me)
I always thaught the only way of doing a proper eszet was the f+3 method, cause that's how I've seen it written here in spain in restaurants and hotels. But I've discovered lately in web forums and such fonts that have a much more similar eszet to the second, or even the third in elyemonique sample
I've been looking on the net for some kind of "type construction guide" or something like that, 'cause my knowledge about special signs (diacritics,eth,thorn,eszet, etc...) Is just lame. But I haven't found anything specifically made for type designers, nor much information about the history of this spetial characters, apart from Wikipedia, so if someone knows a good resource on this topic, I'll be really grateful.
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Eszett is typographically s + s, so the standard used to be simply "SS" for uppercase eszett, however now there's a trend towards ẞ (U+1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S), which looks pretty much like ſƷ.
And if you want to be fancy, something like ʃs/ʃʒ could be done instead.
Then, when I started fontstructing I saw the two different eszets, so I said to myself: hey, yo, that's a different letter, a letter you don't know anything about! Maybe it sounds different! or maybe it hasn't anything to do with the other, you know!! so I looked up images in google for the sharp s in use... and it's extraordinarily recent. Like, never seen an image with ẞ that was released before 2008.
So, I wonder, is it just a "trend" between typographical community, like umbreon says, or there's a specific rule for a enduring, perdurable use of ẞ? If so, how it appeared? I mean, there's a kind of typograpy congress or something like that? I'm not precisely the most informed person in that issues, but I think they must be extremely important...
Anyway, many thanks, Sarreyn, for your comments. I would love to hear more about another characters, especially about how they sound, how they're used, it's development through history and so on, is just that I think maybe that discussion should take place in another forum or a special page, and I don't think "general typography" it's the proper solution... meanwhile, this discusion is open here for everyone.
Also many thanks to Umbreon, though he got me on my nerves trying to find the misterious ʒ for half an hour. XD
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