Missing Characters - Enclosed Alphanumeric LibertinusSerifInitials-Regular.sfd

[ChiefMikeK]

Describe the bug Draft background layers were started at the Libertine Project back in 2008-2012.
If any body with knowledge of the where-abouts please feel free to discuss.
This font is only 36 characters just CAPS ➕ 0-9 and possibly only need to create a stylistic set(s) to the current font?

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See I'm looking for draft decoration background-layers r/typography.

[alerque]

Is it possible "background layers" was a Graphite only feature?

In any case the history going back to the original Linux Libertine files are available in the history of the repository, we should be able to find these.

[cionx]

Using the Wayback Machine it seems that initials were first announced in 2010, sometime between October 24th and November 26th. But I couldn’t find the relevant commit(s) in the Linux Libertine SVN Repository.

However, at least some of these drafts seem to have survived in Libertinus Initial till this day: They can be found under Ⓐ (circled latin capital letter A) to Ⓩ (circled latin capital letter z), i. e. U+24B6 to U+24CF.

But these drafts are fairly incomplete:

• Only A, B, C, D, E, G, I, J, K, M, S look completed.
• The letters N, O, P, Q, R, U, V, W, X, Y, Z have a “background layer”, but are missing the actual letter. (I suspect that these background layers are just placeholders.)
• F looks like it was in the process of being worked on.
• H and T are completely missing.

I don’t know why the original design of the initials were abandoned, but the current initials seem to have descended from these drafts. (So it may be possible to actually finish these more decorative initials by overlaying the existing initials and the already created background layers?)

[ChiefMikeK]

And so I now see

[ChiefMikeK]

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[alerque]

These (the existing ones plus the missing ones) should almost certainly be implemented with something scripted. I'm not sure how layers work in FontForge, but we need something that isn't going to make the development hard or bloat the output when we add glyphs for more language support.