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typoglyphs

An inventory of glyphs used in some 16th century fonts of Polish printers

Polonia Typographica Saeculi Sedecimi, published between 1962 and 1981, contains 89 font tables. Scans of these tables have been split into images of individual glyphs, which were used to create a repository and reconstruct the tables in a LuaLaTeX document (https://zenodo.org/records/14992305).

Typoglyphs are assigned identifiers with the table number, row number and the glyph number. Row 0 is reserved for additions for specific tables, e.g. t65_l00g01.

More information is available in https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-3/tb144bien-typoglyphs.html and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397770258.

A simple repository browser is available at https://jsbien.github.io/typoglyphs/.

Clicking on the glyph ID displayes the metadata in the side panel. The metadata consists of the content of the appropriate keywords file, which always exists, and the appropriate description file, which exists only for some glyphs.

Clicking on the glyph images switches the display to a special windows with the glyph image which can be zoomed with the mouse wheel. Clicking anywhere outside the scan returns to the standard gallery windows.

You can filter the displayed typoglyphs by file names or their fragments, e.g. t63,t63_l03,t63_l03g28.png, or the glyphs ID or their fragments, e.g. U2, U2-14, U2-14_0328.

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More sophisticated functions can be provided by the geeqie program or a similar tool.

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