Fonts with a cross-bar on the Z?

[Geoff Mills]

Hi,
Is there a class of font which has a cross-bar on the diagonal segment
of the Z, or is it just odd individual fonts which have this?
If the latter, can anyone please name some of them?
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Kind regards,
Geoff Mills

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[Character]

Geoff Mills wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there a class of font which has a cross-bar on the diagonal segment
> of the Z, or is it just odd individual fonts which have this?
> If the latter, can anyone please name some of them?

Just odd individual fonts.

Here are a few:

Pauline (Insigne)
Aged-With Style (T-26)
Mason Sans (Emigre)
Athenaeum (Monotype)
Polymorph North (FontFont)

Some OpenType fonts MAY have alternate z's with a cross-bar.

I found these by drawing a Z with a cross-bar and sending it to
WhatTheFont to see what fonts it thought would match.

Here's the actual results page:
http://tinyurl.com/2a2nb7h

The Polymorph result came from telling WhatTheFont that the letter was
z instead of Z.

- Character

[Geoff Mills]

On Wed, 19 May 2010 07:48:37 -0700, Character <Ch...@cters.bold.italic>
wrote:

Thanks very much for the font list and the explanation of the method.
You've taught me a lot with just a few words.

[Character]

Geoff Mills wrote:

You're very welcome.

- Ch.

[Odysseus]

In article <5TSIn.446498$Hq1.2...@en-nntp-04.dc1.easynews.com>,
Character <Ch...@cters.bold.italic> wrote:

> Geoff Mills wrote:
>
> > Is there a class of font which has a cross-bar on the diagonal segment
> > of the Z, or is it just odd individual fonts which have this?
> > If the latter, can anyone please name some of them?
>
> Just odd individual fonts.

Mostly scripts at that, maybe the occasional display font. Very unusual
for a text font, especially if sans-serif. (I'd expect crossed 7s to
occur in many of the same styles.)

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Odysseus

[David E. Ross]

On 5/19/10 7:01 AM, Geoff Mills wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a class of font which has a cross-bar on the diagonal segment
> of the Z, or is it just odd individual fonts which have this?
> If the latter, can anyone please name some of them?

English Gothic from <http://simplythebest.net/fonts/index.html> has both
the upper- and lower-case Z with a cross-bar. This is in the "black
letter" group of fantasy fonts. Several other "black letter" fonts have
the upper-case Z with a cross-bar but not the lower-case z.

I would expect a cross-bar on various German language fonts, but the
German language fonts that I have on my PC don't show the cross-bar.

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David E. Ross
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[Geoff Mills]

On Thu, 20 May 2010 18:15:36 -0700, "David E. Ross"
<nob...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:

>On 5/19/10 7:01 AM, Geoff Mills wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there a class of font which has a cross-bar on the diagonal segment
>> of the Z, or is it just odd individual fonts which have this?
>> If the latter, can anyone please name some of them?
>
>English Gothic from <http://simplythebest.net/fonts/index.html> has both
>the upper- and lower-case Z with a cross-bar. This is in the "black
>letter" group of fantasy fonts. Several other "black letter" fonts have
>the upper-case Z with a cross-bar but not the lower-case z.
>
>I would expect a cross-bar on various German language fonts, but the
>German language fonts that I have on my PC don't show the cross-bar.

Thanks for the tip. I'm trying to make a horizontally compressed
textual logo with some of the letters squeezed within the 'bounding
box' of others.

The characters need to be quite plain and simple in structure to
avoid visual confusion, so the gothic font is a little too complex for
this.

It's just that the 'Z ' would benefit from a crossbar because it would
help to lead the eye in the right direction for continuity. I suppose
I could take a standard font and put a crossbar on the 'Z', if this
isn't too Philistine.