I suppose that, if you so choose, that there could also be a Cankama Medieval font where all of the ligatures are standard (I had used the term mandatory, yet I remember now that the term is standard) and there are long s ligatures as well, all set up as standard ligatures.
I have observed that this style of black letter font was sometimes used in 16th Century England for whole books.
In metal type there were various versions in the 20th Century, one was called Light English Text and one was called Old English Text.
The designs of some letters, such as v and w might vary from size to size within one typeface.
One thing that I did notice in versions advertised by different typefounders, was that in some the W was similar to a UU ligature, as in Cankama and in others the W was similar to a VV ligature.
As an interesting typographic aspect, I was wondering if, should you decide to include an alternate glyph for W in the font, how would one set it up in the OpenType tables, so that in an application such as InDesign the alternate glyph was available and known as being an alternate glyph of W?
William Overington
18 April 2009