Stylistic sets v Character Variants in open type

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Stylistic sets v Character Variants in open type

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I an looking at the Latin letter Eng: Times writes it with a capital shaped like the small n with hook and Calibri uses a capital N to put the hook on, then uses a .ss01 to put the times version shape in it. Is there a 'best practice" with these suffixes or can you choose either. Also how are these alternatives accessed maybe stylistic sets are easier to access than .cv01 sets.
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All I can suggest is look at the Microsoft Tag Registry descriptions:

Character Variants: cv01

Stylistic Sets: ss01

As to the design of Capital Eng, see various fonts that support it on fileformat.info.
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That's just what I needed. basically ss01 is series of characters and cv01etc is more for single character variants. Its worth putting in favourites that site.
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How do you access stylistic sets in word notepad or coreldraw?
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Anne Hext wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:29 pm How do you access stylistic sets in word notepad or coreldraw?
Notepad has very limited support for OpenType. Only some ligatures will be supported.

I don't know about CorelDraw support for OpenType. Which version are you using?

See Here for example.
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Anne Hext wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:29 pm How do you access stylistic sets in word notepad or coreldraw?
Notepad and Wordpad have no way to activate OpenType features, but the ones used to display complex scripts such as Arabic or Devanagari are enabled by default.

In Word you can access them through the Font dialog, on the Advanced tab. See the end of this article:
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Anne Hext wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:29 pm How do you access stylistic sets in word notepad or coreldraw?
From CorelDraw X8:
  • Select an Artistic or Paragraph Text item
  • Menu Text => Text Properties (control-T). This will place a docking panel on the right side. In that docking panel:
  • Expand the first, "Character" section
  • In the middle is a matrix (typically 5 wide by 4 high) of symbols and checkboxes. The "S" item (3 down and 2 over) is for Stylistic Sets.
  • Select the small triangle in the lower right to see which SS are available - 1 through 20.
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