Editing Text figures (section)

== Design ==
[[Image:Text figures.jpg|thumb|right| Text figures in various fonts: [[Adobe Garamond]], [[Adobe Caslon]], [[Theano Didot]] and [[Essonnes Text]]. Note the ascending 3, 4 and 5 in the two latter fonts.]]
In text figures, the shape and positioning of the numerals vary as those of [[lowercase letters]] do. In the most common scheme, ''[[0 (number)|0]]'', ''[[1 (number)|1]]'', and ''[[2 (number)|2]]'' are of [[x-height]], having neither ascenders nor descenders; ''[[6 (number)|6]]'' and ''[[8 (number)|8]]'' have ascenders; and ''[[3 (number)|3]]'', ''[[4 (number)|4]]'', ''[[5 (number)|5]]'', ''[[7 (number)|7]]'', and ''[[9 (number)|9]]'' have descenders. Other schemes exist; for example, the [[typeface|types]] cut by the [[Didot family]] of [[punchcutter]]s and [[typographer]]s in [[France]] between the late 18th and early 19th centuries typically had an ascending ''3'' and ''5'', a form preserved in some later French typefaces. A few other typefaces used different arrangements.{{cn|date=June 2021}} Sometimes the stress of the ''0'' is made different from a letter ''o'' in some way, although many fonts do not do this.<ref name="Letters of Credit" /><ref name="Isoglosse text figures">{{cite web|last1=Bergmann|first1=Christoph|last2=Hardwig|first2=Florian|url=http://www.isoglosse.de/2016/08/zero-vs-oh-strategies-of-glyph-differentiation/|title=Zero vs. oh: Strategies of glyph differentiation|website=Isoglosse|date=23 August 2016|access-date=12 September 2016}}</ref>

High-quality [[typesetting]] generally prefers text figures in [[body text]]: they integrate better with lowercase letters and [[small capitals]], unlike runs of lining figures. Lining figures are called for in all-capitals settings (hence the alternative name ''titling figures''), and may work better in tables and [[spreadsheet]]s. 

Although many conventional typefaces have both types of numerals in full, early digital fonts only had one or the other (with the exception of those used by professional printers). Modern [[OpenType]] fonts generally include both, and being able to switch via <code>lnum</code> and <code>onum</code> feature tags.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Microsoft |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/features_ko |title=Registered features - definitions and implementations |date=February 14, 2017 |access-date=April 24, 2018}}</ref> The few common digital fonts that default to using text figures include [[Candara]], [[Constantia (typeface)|Constantia]], [[Corbel (typeface)|Corbel]], [[Hoefler Text]], [[Georgia (typeface)|Georgia]], [[Junicode]], some variations of [[Garamond]] (such as the open-source [[EB Garamond]]), and [[FF Scala]]. [[Palatino]] and its clone FPL Neu support both text and lining figures.<ref>{{cite web |date= November 30, 2002 |url= http://luc.devroye.org/palatino2.html |title= More on the Palatino Story |first= Luc |last= Devroye}}</ref><ref>[http://home.vr-web.de/was/x/FPL/ Index of /~was/x/FPL] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415004821/http://home.vr-web.de/was/x/FPL/ |date=April 15, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1= (URW)++ Design & Development |first2= Diego |last2= Puga |first3= Ralf |last3= Stubner |url= http://www.alice-dsl.net/ralfstubner/fplneu-otf.html |title= FPL Neu Fonts—OpenType Edition |date= March 13, 2008 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120425021237/http://www.alice-dsl.net/ralfstubner/fplneu-otf.html |archive-date= April 25, 2012 }}</ref>