Experimental replica of VMS properties with a given corpus

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This is a brief article but it has an interesting little chart of which abbreviations Gutenberg considered important enough to include in his typefaces.

I'm not going to copy over their chart to the forum because someone took some time to make it and it wouldn't be right to snatch it, but here is a link:

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Edit (addition): Here is a link for the Cardo user's manual: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

A lot of work has gone into this. There's even a section on Old Italic where you can see the shape-legacy from Phoenician, Runic, and Greek characters.

• There's a section on musical symbols which I find interesting because some of them could potentially be combined to create some of the common Latin paragraph markers (not pilcrows, but the ones used for glossing specific passages). It also includes the VMS rare character that looks like capitalA which is found in Old Russian, Coptic Greek, Greek, math, music and a few other places.
  
• It includes the pi-rho symbol (the one that is frequent on Greek coins and which looks a bit like EVA-P) in the Beta Code section.
  
• The PHI Latin section includes the y symbol (F02D5) and s symbol (both very common abbreviations).
  

But, I didn't see the wide range of Latin symbols that I expected. I don't know if the charts in the manual are only showing a small subset of characters or if they didn't fully document them.