Long outliving its creator Paul Renner, Futura has weathered a worldwide economic depression, international trade embargoes, political boycotts, and partisan propaganda, plus decades of knockoffs and competitors. The glyph for ct replaces the sequence of glyphs c t, or U+322E (Kanji ligature for 'Friday') replaces the sequence U+91D1 U+66DC U+65E5.Futura tells a history of modern public life hidden in plain sight. This feature covers those ligatures which may be used for special effect, at the user's preference. The application can use this feature to automatically access the superior figures (more legible than scaled figures) for footnotes, or the user can apply it to Mssr to get the classic form.įunction: Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph which is preferred for typographic purposes. The user applies this feature to turn 2.o into 2.o (abbreviation for secundo).įunction: Replaces lining or oldstyle figures with superior figures (primarily for footnote indication), and replaces lowercase letters with superior letters (primarily for abbreviated French titles). One exception to the follows-a-figure rule is the numero character (U+2116), which is actually a ligature substitution, but is best accessed through this feature. The user applies this feature to text to enable localized Bulgarian forms of Cyrillic letters alternatively, the feature might enable localized Russian forms in a Bulgarian manufactured font in which the Bulgarian forms are the default characters.įunction: Replaces default alphabetic glyphs with the corresponding ordinal forms for use after figures. This feature enables localized forms of glyphs to be substituted for default forms. In some cases the localized form differs only subtly from the script 'norm', in others the forms are radically distinct. For example, a number of letters in the Bulgarian and Serbian alphabets have forms distinct from their Russian counterparts and from each other. The glyph for ffl replaces the sequence of glyphs f f l.įunction: Many scripts used to write multiple languages over wide geographical areas have developed localized variant forms of specific letters, which are used by individual literary communities.

This feature covers the ligatures which the designer/manufacturer judges should be used in normal conditions.

The user enters 3/4 in a recipe and gets the threequarters fraction.įunction: Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph which is preferred for typographic purposes. Function: Replaces figures separated by a slash with 'common' (diagonal) fractions.

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