Comment 87 for bug 650498

No, Thorsten, it just means that one did a design proposal and nobody has contradicted enough about it. And it means that noone of the font designers of the Ubuntu font is motivated to solve this bug. For them the need for a capital sharp S doesn’t exist.

Adolfo (#84), I apprechiate your effort. I would have commented directly on your site – but didn’t see that possibility, because I just read until prev/next article and thought that was the end of page. My fault.

I’ll comment here: I think you have choosen the ugliest design form of a capital sharp S. I don’t mean your execution is ugly – that’s really okay –, but the B-form isn’t the design for a capital sharp S.

I don’t think (as mach #85) that a small letter should look like the sorresponding capital one (compare A/a, B/b, D/d, E/e, G/g, H/h, M/m, N/n, Q/q, R/r). But we should use the better construction designs of a capital sharp s than Microsoft.

I found Ralf Herrmann’s article very interesting (http://opentype.info/blog/2013/11/18/capital-sharp-s-design-review/). He categories different designs. I personally prefer the Dresden form without corner, but that’s no reason to do that.

We all suffer here from the desinterst of the official font designers, maybe we should do it alone (as Adolfo began).