Titling figures

Lining (also: Majuskelziffern or normal digits) are glyphs of the European decimal digits (as opposed to old style figures ) are on the line of writing without descenders and uniform, with capital letters ( uppercase ) the same font matching height have ( ie until the H-line rich ). Rare lining figures are also somewhat smaller and more delicate than the capitals.

Lining are the now common form of representation for numbers (Table digits) that do not occur in the quantity text. Since the 19th century, but they are also common there; However, until now they are not welcome in demanding pleading out of context, as they affect the homogeneous appearance of a text block.

In English, there are different names for the lining figures. So there find Lining Figures, Regular Numerals or Titling Figures use. Many fonts shall bear corresponding abbreviations in names, usually "LF" for Lining Figures.

Digital typography

The choice of Versal, oldstyle and possibly other forms of representation of digits is a typestyle such as the choice of italic font representation. More sophisticated word processing programs, especially desktop publishing software allow you to choose in this form. Which is not given this option, this can be done by explicit selection of a font with the desired number shapes. At the level of character encoding ( especially in Unicode) do not distinguish between the different digit shapes.

Although Unicode contains encodings with the 1D7F6 - 1D7FF in block Mathematical alphanumeric symbols explicitly monospaced lining figures. However, these are only to be used where the use of special numeric representations is important supporting ( and expressly not aesthetically motivated ); specifically those characters (like the Unicode block name suggests ) for mathematical applications intended. They are therefore available only in specially-designed for such application areas fonts and should therefore not be used as a substitute for writing awards.