Making a font with 9,999 ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals — Digital Seams

4 months ago by cm0002 to c/typography

As the title implies, I just created a font that displays numbers in a compact format used by Cistercian monks . You can play with it on my demo site here :
AllNewTypeFace 1 point 4 months ago

Surely Unicode can spare 37 codepoints (9 combining digits for each position plus the base/null character) for cistercian numerals?

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