![]() ![]() At times in the past, the rulers of the country have spoken Latin, or even old forms of French. To give English a clear identity as a national languageĮnglish wasn’t always the official language of England. This doesn’t explain why we don’t use a capital for ‘me’, though. Using a capital for ‘I’ but not ‘you’ might help the writer have more authority. To show that the person writing is important It’s easier to see a capital ‘I’ when used by itself, so people started using it in that way to make their writing easier to read. When it became our modern, long ‘I’ sound (like in ‘bike’) we made the letter bigger to show it was a longer sound. It used to be a short sound because it came from the same sound as the German word ‘ich’ (a short ‘i’ sounds like the ‘i’ in ‘ticket’). The pronunciation of ‘I’ has changed over time Even etymologists (people who study the history of words) don’t know for sure. Well, the short answer is that nobody really knows. So, why don’t ‘me’ or ‘you’ need capital letters? ‘I’ isn’t any of those, though – ‘I’ is a pronoun, like ‘me’ or ‘you’. It’s easy to remember to use a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, for proper nouns and for names. We have rules for using capital letters but ‘I’ doesn’t really follow them. Patches, suggestions, and corrections are welcome.Take our short English test to find out. This book is free culture, hosted on GitHub. When Things Go Wrong With FontForge Itself Prev Creating Your Type’s DNA Next Line Spacing The shape and proportions of V tells you a little about how to design Y W X. The shape of A can tell you quite a lot about the shape of V. It also tells you a little about T and U. The shape of H tells you a bit about about I and J and the left side of B D E F K L P R. The shape of O can tell you quite a lot about the C, G and Q. The D may be similar to H or quite a bit wider. Generally the N and V are similar to H but slightly wider. The width of the E S and P may be substantially narrower than the H or may be similar. The next set of letters to consider adding are A E S I N and either P or D and maybe V.ĭepending on the style of the font you are making you may find that the capital letters require more variation in width than you have in the lower case letters. ![]() You may want to create an interpolation experiment to rapidly find how much heavier they should be. The weight of strokes in the upper case often needs to be somewhat heavier than the strokes of the lower case. You may want to adjust the ascenders and descenders of your lower case or adjust your capitals to the lower case to create the proportion that suit the purpose of your design. It is at this stage that you determine the proportion of the lower case to the upper case. ![]() The design of these letters should not just be in relation to each other, but also in relation to the existing lower case letters. The first two letters to design are “H” and “O”. Just like with lower case letters, the frequency with which letters are used also remains an important factor in the choice of the letters. You begin by designing key letters whose shapes and characteristics lend themselves to the design of characters which share a common shape. Making the capital letters should follow a pattern very similar to the making of the lower case letters. ![]()
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