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Zoey (7 Jahre alt) aus Heiden möchte gerne von der Maus wissen: Warum sagt man "sz" zum "ß"?

TIL Laubbläßer gibts nicht. Nur Laubbläser.

#eszett und so

Für #Typographie-Nerds gibt es bald was auf die Ohren. Das wird GROẞARTIG! 😊 #Eszett #Hörbuch

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Hörbuch: Das große Eszett

In drei Anläufen ins deutsche Alphabet. Ein Hörbuch und ein Online-Archiv zum Eszett. 🌐 An audiobook and website about the letter ẞ.

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Des croquis, y compri mon protogen Ânbaï et la mascotte de tu:are-we-art-yet

#protogen #eszett #cc0 #sketch #furryart #plants

Eszett — Wikipédia

TIL there is an upper case German "sharp s"! 😲

"The ability to substitute ss or SS for the lower and upper case “sharp s” is captured in the Unicode full case folding data"

rosie-lang.org/blog/2023-08-15…
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"The ß is used only in German and never at the start of German words. The uppercase ß (ẞ) exists only for typesetting, such as in a dictionary."

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%…

#german #eszett #SharfesS #SharpS

Project activity 2021-2023

Short summary of work on the PEXL codebase

VZWO Type | Viktor Zumegen — VZWO Choreo Display

Typefaces, Letterings & Logos — also as customized solutions.

Johannes López Ayala (@[email protected])

Heads up, type designers: the latest (2024) issue of the official spelling rules of the German language makes ẞ the default form for capitalizing ß. This means many of you will have to turn the tables in a font update to keep providing German language support: make ẞ the default in OT all-caps or small-caps features and keep SS in a stylistic set (if at all). (Source: https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/rechtschreibung/6180)

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The German Capital Letter Eszett · Typefacts

On June 29, 2017, the Council for German Orthography endorsed the optional use of a capital sharp s. That means the most controversial of …

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The Sz digraph has to be one of the most fascinating in the European alphabets. There are so many ways to design the #eszett #SharpS
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Attached: 1 image The Capital Sharp S (ẞ) in Letterpress Fonts ☞ https://letterlibrary.org/view/tour/capitalsharps-letterpressfonts/

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