On 6 Mar 2019, at 10:57, Fredrick Brennan via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
>> Draw it as you wish. Most likely it will be the same shape as your >> lower-case one, adjusted to fit caps height. > > As I'm working on a blackletter font, it's unfortunately not this easy. Sure it is. > It seems like there is no blackletter style for the capital form from the > period… so I'll have to perhaps either (A) leave it empty, assuming users of > my font would never attempt to typeset a Ꝭ in blackletter but would choose > e.g. Junicode instead, That’s a not a good idea. > (B) look at examples in the Roman style and make up my own glyph as I've > already done for Greek and Cyrillic, That is a better idea. > or (C) just make the glyph an "IS" ligature as I've already done for e.g. > LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ (U+0132). That is a very bad idea. If a text has a Ꝭ in it, a Ꝭ should be displayed, not an IS. Particularly as in Middle English the correct reading might be ES, and in Middle Cornish the reading might be YS. > If anyone has any idea or example glyph from the period I'd love to see it, > but I doubt such exists :-) You are the type designer. You may live in the 21st century, but you could just as easily have lived in the 16th. Your client says “I need a Ꝭ glyph” and it’s up to you to design one. The easiest thing for your purposes (since you may not find a capital Ꝭ easily is to take the ꝭ glyph and modify it to fit between caps height and baseline. Cheers, Michael Everson
