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Originally Posted by Semwize
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Not every glyph in a font is mapped to a Unicode character.
Literata has about 1700 glyphs and 1200 characters. (I don't count Unicode composites - it is a different story).
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Originally Posted by DNSB
An interesting view. For me, I seem to remember being told that each glyph of a font represents a character with the quibble that some of the glyphs can be combining characters and other glyphs are combined characters. A y combined with a ˘ (breve) or a ў for example.
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I'm not an expert, but you can have glyphs that are not mapped to any character, or glyphs that are just a character's components (not Unicode composites, as you wrote, but internal components)
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Originally Posted by DNSB
A slab serif is still a serif just a didone, Clarendon, etc. serif is a serif. My personal favourite tends to the transitional serifs. And yes, I've seen and participated in arguments about slab serifs just being sans serif designs with a heavy weight serif added.
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Maybe, for me serif is just serif, not sans, not slab.
Have you seen any printed books using slab serif?