Not sure where else to ask this, so here goes.
When we teach very young kids how to write the lower case A, we get them to write ‘a’.
But in almost all computer fonts, when not italicized they appear as ‘a’.
This gets very confusing for the children when I print out material for them to read.
So my questions are:
What are the proper names for the two different looking lowercase A’s ?
Are there any reasons why most computer fonts use ‘a’ by default rather than ‘a’?
Are there any good fonts that use ‘a’ by default even when not italicized?
All the ‘a’ characters came out the same in your post but I assume you mean the single storey ‘a’ and the two storey ‘a’. The handwriting ‘a’ with a single loop is called the single storey ‘a’. The more complex ‘a’ with a loop at the bottom and a hook over the top is the two storey ‘a’.
I have no idea why this came to be.
There are many fonts which use a single storey ‘a’ in the upright version. One of them is ‘Cadman’ which is one of my own, you can download it for free if you like it.
Hi
I have just posted an image that uses your Cadman font.
It is in the Affinity forum thread and is a contribution to an event where people are asked to design a poster for an imaginary Summer Fair at an imaginary village using specific given wording so as to compare various versions.
One poster mentioned the issue of some people having difficulty reading, so I decided to make my version as suitable for them as possible.
My first version uses Comic Sans.
Later, I found this thread and your kind offer of the Cadman font.
So I have now produced a version using the Cadman font.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/207857-summer-fair-–-cheap-and-cheerful-flyerposter-experiment/&do=findComment&comment=1243692
Thank you for supplying this font.
Best regards,
William