Long s

The long, medial or descending s (?) is a form of the minuscule letter s that was formerly used when the s occurred within or at the beginning of the word, for example ?infulne?s ("sinfulness"). The modern letterform was called the terminal or short s.

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The medial s was subject to confusion with the minuscule f, sometimes even having an f-like nub appended to its middle, in various derivatives of Roman typeface and in blackletter. There was no nub in its typeform in italics, which also gave the stroke a descender which curled to the left, something which could not be given to the other typeforms mentioned without kerning.

Minuscule: Minuscule, or lower case, is the smaller form (case) of letters (in the Roman alphabet: a, b, c, ...). Originally alphabets were written entirely in majuscule (capital) letters which were spaced between well-defined upper and lower bounds. When written quickly with a pen, these tended to rounder an...

S: S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet....

F: The letter F is the sixth (6th) letter in the Latin alphabet....

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