{"id":16,"date":"2006-02-08T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/02\/08\/typeface\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T20:59:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T01:59:50","slug":"typeface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/02\/08\/typeface\/","title":{"rendered":"typeface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I thought that it was really interesting, and funny, about that long s that appeared in the old printing of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Flea.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to look up older letterform and find out more about why texts appeared this way.\u00c2\u00a0 The practice of using the \u00c5\u00bf in place of s died out before the 1800s in Roman and Italic type faces.\u00c2\u00a0 The International Phonetic Alphabet uses a similar symbol: <strong>\u00ca\u0192<\/strong> to represent the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sh\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sound.\u00c2\u00a0 There is even an example of a long s in the United States Bill of Rights.\u00c2\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/d0\/Long_S_in_US_Bill_of_Rights.JPG\" align=\"textTop\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some times French and German printing still uses ligatures for s\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s though. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e5\/CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg\/250px-CycleDesign_Kopie.jpg\" \/> <em>berlin 2002<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In calculus a version of the long s symbol is used to stand for the latin word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153summa,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or sum.\u00c2\u00a0 The way it made us laugh in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Flea\u00e2\u20ac\u009d others have used the confusion between the long s and the letter f for humor. \u00c2\u00a0The long s was never used to end a word.\u00c2\u00a0 For example the word sentiments would look like fentiments.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Another letterform used in the past was the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153half r\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or r rotunda, which was used to replace the letter r if it followed another letter.\u00c2\u00a0 This may have been to save space.\u00c2\u00a0 It certainly would not be able to give words double meanings like the long s though.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here you can see the half r and long s in the title <em>Hystoriae ecclesiastica:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.library.villanova.edu\/services\/depts\/speccoll\/images\/bible2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><!--18db01db4c225ade71239238506bd550--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I thought that it was really interesting, and funny, about that long s that appeared in the old printing of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Flea.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to look up older letterform and find out more about why texts appeared this way.\u00c2\u00a0 The practice of using the \u00c5\u00bf in place of s died out before the 1800s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/02\/08\/typeface\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">typeface<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}