Talk:ꭋ

Shapes of the glyph

@Kwamikagami: The usage note mentions the "reversed r" look and the "Tironian et" look, but the image in the lower right corner has a third appearance: it looks like an upside-down r rotunda, don't you think? —Mahāgaja · talk 07:18, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

That's in italic typeface, which is normal for Teuthonista. The problem is what it should look like in roman typeface, which while rare does occur. Denis Jacquerye noted a few possibilities, including reversed r.

There are many problems like this in Teuthonista, Dania and the Swedish dialect alphabet. For example, there are letters that remain roman even in italic typeface. No-one seems to know what they should look like in roman typeface if a distinction is to be maintained. (Everson proposed that they should lean to the left, so that auto italic formating would make them upright, but that was rejected by Unicode.)

If you click on the image you mentioned and follow it to Commons, it's categorized along with a number of other forms, and some textual examples. kwami (talk) 07:31, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

@Mahagaja A turned old-style '2' might be the best representative glyph for the info box. That would need to be crafted, and I'm already spending too much time on this block, but maybe a turned r rotunda would work. I'll play around with it. kwami (talk) 07:53, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, that's probably better for our audience. It wouldn't be any good in a roman font, because when set in italics it would become distorted. But it would work okay in an italic font. There are a couple other letters I set in italics, because in roman typeface they're not distinctive. kwami (talk) 08:00, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Hard to get the ringed form from it, though. Past my bedtime, though. kwami (talk) 09:42, 3 August 2024 (UTC)