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Kensuke Sano edited this page Sep 26, 2019 · 2 revisions

Some fonts have retro-style U/V handling functions in OpenType features, often along with Latin language tag, currently used in this project. For the time being, it could be better to input V/u/v manually with a font without Latin tag or to write lua codes to append features.

Usage

  • Uppercase & smallcaps: V;
  • Lowercase:
    • Initial: v;
    • Medial & finial: u.

Current status of old style fonts

More info will be welcome!

  • Duffner's EB Garamond has it via both Latin tag & stylistic set, & is currently used, but its replacements overwrite smallcaps & alike.
  • Duffner & Pardo's EB Garamond 12, having re-organised Duffner's features, doesn't have it fully functional: it replaces all lowercase u with v;
  • Miller's Garamond Libre has it functional via Latin tag, but it wholly nullifies smallcaps & alike;
  • Libertinus by Khaled Hosny & co. seems to have no such functions.
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