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Syloti Nagari, issue with ꠜ, ꠖꠥ, ꠦ, ꠧ #3
Description
Defect Report
The Syloti Nagari character ꠜ (bh) looks too similar to ꠘ (n). The character ꠖ (d) should be nicely connected to the diacritic ꠥꠥ (u).
(Actually in most Sylheti handwritings, the diacritic on all consonants is not connected, but since in this font the diacritics is connected, it should work nicely for ꠖ)
The diacritic of "e": ꠦ should be unconnected to the consonants, similar to the diacritic ꠂꠂ, as in ꠔꠂ, so not connected like ꠔꠦ.. same for the diacritic ꠧ, it should be unconnected. Mostly a different shape of the letter ꠀ "A" is used, but that's perhaps Unicode's job, though it can be added in the non horizontal line font. Shown in the screenshots. I will highlight if needed.
Font
NotoSansSylotiNagari-Regular.ttf.
Font Version
Current available on github 4/12/2018
Screenshot
The ꠜ (bh) is in the 5th line of consonants. The unconnected diacritic of "e" is in the last line as "ke" ꠇꠦ. Also notice the unconnected "u" diacritic in both images.
Here in the 7th line you can see the "bh" with diacritic "u".
Activity
simoncozens commentedon May 21, 2024
I fixed the last three parts (ꠖꠥ, ꠦ, ꠧ) but will ask someone to draw a new ꠜ .
Fix connection of ꠖꠥ, see #3
Disconnect ꠧ, see #3
PaulHanslow commentedon Sep 5, 2024
@simoncozens, can you confirm if the ꠜ SYLOTI NAGRI LETTER BHO (U+A81C) or if the ꠘ SYLOTI NAGRI LETTER NO (U+A818) requires a redesign? The above post from @Sagir8453 stated these characters are too similar in appearance but I'm failing to know which one needs updating by lowering the top curve to meet the stem in a lower position.
simoncozens commentedon Sep 6, 2024
It's BHO which we need to redesign; the loop should be tighter and slightly nearer the stem, and the tail of the loop come further around. (The tail currently comes out of the loop at 11 o'clock, and heads west, but it should keep curling around until it is heading south-west.)
Kind of like this, just not horrible:
Sagir8453 commentedon Sep 7, 2024
Hi. Thanks for considering the issue. I've also made some suggestions (in red)
The first two match with the width of ꠇ and ꠗ. Both of these shapes are found in manuscripts. Like the 1st one can be seen here:
The 2nd one in here:
The other two are variations.