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@jmcwilliams403 jmcwilliams403 commented Oct 20, 2025

This is in lieu of a proper italic form — which technically existed — until it gets added to the font. If that ever happens, this PR at least serves as minor cleanup.

This also enforces the serif behavior on all (upright) Cyrillic Lower De derived characters, even though it's only ever visible for (long-legged de) and (this character) since the rest of them have proper italic forms (or, in the case of Lower Soft De , covers up the only serif that actually changes with its augmentation).

Ддᲁ Ꚁꚁ Лл

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@dscorbett Does this letter have true (cursive-ish) italic form?

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Does this letter have true (cursive-ish) italic form?

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jmcwilliams403 commented Oct 21, 2025

Mind you this PR does not add a new italic form, just some motion serif behavior for the upright form when under italics as a somewhat temporary measure.

@be5invis be5invis merged commit c49a3db into be5invis:dev Oct 21, 2025
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That’s the same example glyph I would have responded with, but, for future reference, I’ve never been able to find an example of this Abkhaz alphabet in true italics as opposed to handwritten cursive. They are related, but handwriting is often curlier or otherwise different, so a handwritten example is not necessarily a reliable indicator for the italic form. For example, Абхазский алфавит (1892), pp. 13–14 gives the full alphabet in “Печат.” (print) and “Скороп.” (handwriting) and some of the handwritten letters (especially the capital ones) don’t match Iosevka’s italics; in the bilingual Abkhaz–Russian parts, when the Russian text is italicized, the corresponding Abkhaz text is not, so it might be that no italic font was ever cut for this orthography. I did find a non-italic version of that glyph, though, in Из истории письменности в Абхазии (1967), p. 43, which (if reliable) implies that if an italic small dwe does exist, it probably does indeed look essentially the same as the handwritten one. In summary, this evidence doesn’t change anything, but I hope it was interesting anyway.

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