[Gllug] Government Gateway

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:08:29PM +0000, - Tethys wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:57 PM, t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I never realised that there were upper and lower-case numerals; you learn
> > something new every day.
> 
> Your sarcasm is misplaced. Any decent typographer will tell you that
> there are indeed lower case numerals:
> 
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures
> 
> Full details, as ever, can be found in Bringhurst. That said, since
> they are merely alternate glyphs for the same unicode code point, the
> concept of case insensitivity is meaningless here.

I love how the "lowercase" numerals look, but please find a typeface
that actually offers them!

IIRC (from a long long time ago when I looked at this) some MS font
called Georgia(?) had them, but that was about it.

Rich.

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