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Draw the missing ligatures and letterforms: Æ æ Œ œ ß Þ þ Ð ð #2

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These are the characters a Latin-1 font is expected to carry that GK Norm still lacks. Unlike the accented letters, none is a base plus a mark, so none could be composed. Each is its own letterform and wants drawing by hand.

Æ U+00C6, æ U+00E6 AE ligature
Œ U+0152, œ U+0153 OE ligature
ß U+00DF sharp s
Þ U+00DE, þ U+00FE thorn
Ð U+00D0, ð U+00F0 eth

Usage. A scan of gravitykit.com content found æ 10 times and ß 9 times, mostly in customer names on orders. Low volume, but each occurrence is a name rendered in the wrong font mid-word.

Æ/æ and Œ/œ may be reachable by joining the existing letterforms; ß, thorn and eth are not, and need real drawing.

Related: the fi and fl ligatures (U+FB01, U+FB02) are also absent, though they matter less without a GSUB liga feature to trigger them (see the GSUB issue).

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