text figures

Computer Modern supports text figures but is not the default.

Both lining and text figures were produced.

However, in typefaces with text figures, the character is often shorter (x-height).

It has both text figures and lining figures.

In old-style fonts with text figures, 0 is usually the same height as a lowercase x.

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In text figures, the shape and positioning of the numerals vary as those of lowercase letters do.

They were further developed by 19th-century type designers, and largely displaced text figures in some contexts, such as newspaper and advertising typography.

(There are two typographic styles for rendering European numerals, known as lining figures and text figures).

Corbel includes text figures (old style or lowercase numerals), which are very suitable for setting running text.

The typeface includes text figures (old style figures) providing a refinement not available in News Gothic.

It also includes special characters such as International Phonetic Alphabet, arrows, floral symbols, Roman numbers, text figures, and small caps.

High-quality typesetting generally prefers text figures in body text: they integrate better with lowercase letters and small capitals, and their greater variety of shape facilitates reading.

Text figures are not encoded separately in Unicode, because they are not considered separate characters from lining figures, only a different way of writing the same characters.

Some fonts provide both proportional and fixed-width (tabular) digits, where the former usually coincide with lowercase text figures and the latter with uppercase lining figures.

These include the look of digits (text figures) and the minuscules, which may be smaller versions of the capital letters (small caps) although the script has developed characteristic shapes for them.

While the shape of the 1 character has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures, the character usually is of x-height, as, for example, in .

As the name medieval numerals implies, text figures have been in use since the Middle Ages, when Arabic numerals reached 12th century Europe, where they eventually supplanted Roman numerals.

The few common digital fonts with default text figures include Candara, Constantia, Corbel, Hoefler Text, Georgia, Junicode and FF Scala.

The use of text figures suffered further setbacks for most of the 20th century, amid attempts to do away with typographic case altogether, and they became rarer still with the advent of phototypesetting.

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Text figures (also known as non-lining, lowercase, old-style, ranging, hanging, medieval, billing, or antique figures or numerals) are numerals typeset with varying heights in a fashion that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the name.

However, some fonts offer both text and lining figures, either using OpenType features to select between them or using Unicode's Private Use Area for one or the other set; for instance, Adobe's "Pro" fonts use codepoints U+F643 to U+F64C to encode text figures.