On 6 Mar 2019, at 10:57, Fredrick Brennan via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
>> Draw it as you wish. Most likely it will be the same shape as your lower-case one, adjusted to fit caps height.
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> As I'm working on a blackletter font, it's unfortunately not this easy.
Sure it is.
> It seems like there is no blackletter style for the capital form from the period… so I'll have to perhaps either (A) leave it empty, assuming users of my font would never attempt to typeset a Ꝭ in blackletter but would choose e.g. Junicode instead,
That’s a not a good idea.
> (B) look at examples in the Roman style and make up my own glyph as I've already done for Greek and Cyrillic,
That is a better idea.
> or (C) just make the glyph an "IS" ligature as I've already done for e.g. LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE IJ (U+0132).
That is a very bad idea. If a text has a Ꝭ in it, a Ꝭ should be displayed, not an IS. Particularly as in Middle English the correct reading might be ES, and in Middle Cornish the reading might be YS.
> If anyone has any idea or example glyph from the period I'd love to see it, but I doubt such exists :-)
You are the type designer. You may live in the 21st century, but you could just as easily have lived in the 16th. Your client says “I need a Ꝭ glyph” and it’s up to you to design one. The easiest thing for your purposes (since you may not find a capital Ꝭ easily is to take the ꝭ glyph and modify it to fit between caps height and baseline.
Cheers,
Michael Everson
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