Greek lambda has no straight variant

[AlsoScratch]

Only problem is which character variant to sort it under. Or we could give it its own.

[be5invis]

Maybe under the y umbrella, but well it is more complicated.

[AlsoScratch]

y is a problem because of cv49. Maybe cv49 could have no effect on lambda, or we could give it its own OpenType variant.

[be5invis]

cv49 will set lambda to straight.

[AlsoScratch]

What about giving it its own tag?

[be5invis]

I do not have many tags to waste. Sorry.

[AlsoScratch]

But those who want curly lambda but cv49 y will have a problem since cv49 will set lambda to straight. Right now, making it have no effect on lambda seems best.

[be5invis]

... Add v-lambda-straight (cv94) and v-lambda-curly (cv95)

[throwaway571]

@be5invis

Is it possible to consolidate all the curly variants into one tag? I can’t imagine someone preferring to use straight y but curly v, for example.

If this is too radical, you could save one tag by making the straight/curly and roman/cursive axes for y independent. In that case, cv49 would override the shape selector for y and only apply to λ.

cv48, cv94: straight y and λ (default in Upright)
cv48, cv49: straight λ, cursive y (default in Italic)
cv79, cv94: curly y and λ
cv79, cv49: curly λ, cursive y

Completely unrelated to this, the glyph you posted for ƛ has the bar a little too low: it should go through the ascender, at about the same height as the stroke in ð.

[be5invis]

@throwaway571 There's already ss20 which will turn all letters to curly.
cv## tags is used for cherry picking, so I'd like to leave it as-is.

[throwaway571]

@be5invis I edited my last post while you were responding to add something about the design of the lambda-bar glyph.

[be5invis]

@throwaway571 Move up a little :)

[throwaway571]

@be5invis Yeah, I think that looks better. By the way, does Latin gamma have curly and straight variants as well? If not, I’d recommend adding them to the v, V tag.

[be5invis]

@throwaway571
Currently no plan for 3.0. You can open a new issue for post-3.0.