Re: Font Question

From: "Gary Shannon" <fiziwig@...>

> I was wondering if anyone knew of a font that has the
> characters from 17th century English like the "s" that
> looks like "f", and the odd ligatures they used back
> then.
Forgot to mention in my previous post on Unicode and 'ſ' (long 's'), the
ligatures 'ſt' (U+FB05) and 'st' (U+FB06) can be found in Palatino Linotype
[my favorite Latin-Greek-Cyrillic font - its Latin characters are
essentially the same as Book Antiqua]. There are other ligatures in its
OpenType tables, but they're not in Unicode and I have no idea how to use
them. I can't put them in any documents with Word.

That one font in particular has a German _es-tzet_ ß that does resemble a
ligature of long and short 's', rather than Greek _beta_.

> I was thinking it would be interesting to go back 500
> years or so and then evolve English forward from there
> in som alternate way.  Instead of an alternate-future
> or sci-fi English it would be an alternate-present
> English.
I really like the use of 'ſs' for double 's'. There needs to be a way to
disambiguate long 's' from 'f' though besides the short horizontal stroke of
the latter....

If I ever put up a real webpage, I might use long 's' as a gimmick.

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