tall s

Example Sentences

• "With all this, I think I could produce writings in modern cursive quite as difficult of perusal as most or any of the ancient cursives ; for, as for the genuine minuscule alphabet, it appears to have been, from the first, very much if not quite the same as we now use in writing ; save that in recent centuries the tall s (ſ) has been considered applicable only to typography ; and that we put a dot over the i, and commonly give a certain degree of inclination to the letters, in writing, which the ancients did not ; and that besides, we are more careful than they were to leave proper spaces between our words, and to separate one sentence, or member of a sentence, from another, by marks of punctuation."
• "Confusion of the tall s with f is possible, because by most writers the two letters are formed in precisely the same way – except for one important detail! The head of the s may curve down and leftward toward the shaft. but it cannot touch or cross the shaft. since if it does it becomes no longer an s but an f. Occasionally a writer through inadvertance makes an f when he intends s, and vice versa, but this is rare."
• "The noteworthy letter-foms in its script are as follows: [...], s, usually low, but occasional use of tall s and split s (note that in ss the forms do not vary); [...]."
• "Sharp diagonal serifs are applied to the heads of ascenders, notably d and tall s, which acquires a loop in the process."
• "Especially typical are the elongated descenders of f and tall s, which regularly extend into the following line."