How to name the character "long s" as formerly used in Antiqua

Design
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I am trying to create an Antiqua font in the bandzug style. The font contains a long internal s. How do I name the glyph correctly? Is it an “s.alt…” or how do I place it correctly?

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Found out by trial and error. “longs” ist the name of that glyph.

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You can also copy-paste the character into the dialogue that pops up when you hit Glyph > New Glyph. Glyphs will then create the new glyph with the preferred name.

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Thanks for the answer, but I can’t quite make sense of it. I create my glyphs in Illustrator with the brush tool. Then I insert them into the corresponding glyphs in Glyphs. To do this, however, they must already exist in my font. In the case of the “long s”, however, I initially didn’t know what the corresponding glyph was called in the naming scheme, but I found that out myself.
Thanks for the help anyway.

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The point is here that you can simply copy-paste the glyph ſ (for example from Wikipedia page or any other text source) into a New Glyph dialogue and then Glyphs will automatically create a ‘longs’ glyph cell. So you don’t have to remember the correct glyph name as long as you can type or paste it here.

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Wow! That’s great! Learned a new trick! Thank you!

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And if you just want to look up glyphs without adding them to a font, go to Window → Glyph Info.

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I tried to upload my newly created font for your review, but was told that new users are not allowed to upload data (which I understand and agree with). My question: how long is a new user considered “new”?

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I’m not sure myself; the forum software increases the user level over time automatically. I don’t think you are a bot, so I now manually increased your level.

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Oh, thank you very much! So here’s my first attempt to creating a font.
Bandzugantiqua-Regular.ttf (20,1 KB)

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You can copy paste the character. A glyph is what you see after you apply a font. The text is made from characters and displayed using glyphs.

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Ah :man_facepalming: Yes, I meant character of course. Thanks for correcting my mistake.

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Still needs a little bit of kerning, I see. But I do think, for a very first try, it turned out pretty nice.