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Ear

The small stroke off the top right of a double-storey lowercase g.

Ear: the Great Primer roman of Caslon's 1734 specimen, whose double-storey g carries a small stroke off its upper right.
Caslon's Great Primer roman, 1734, William Caslon.
Public domainPublic domain: A broadsheet printed by William Caslon about 1734; Caslon died in 1766 and the sheet is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain sheet as carrying no new copyright.
Cropped to the Great Primer roman. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Ear: rebus magnis naturaque in Jenson's roman of 1470, the g with its ear off the top right of the upper bowl.
The ear of Jenson's g, 1470, Nicolas Jenson, printer.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Venice in 1470; Jenson died in 1480, and the book is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright.
Cropped to one word with a g. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

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NOT MEASURED ON THIS SHELF, and here is what it would takethe projection on a g, which needs the glyph segmented into bowl, loop and ear before any of it can be measuredTHE INSTRUMENT IT WOULD NEED, and it is not an image measurement. Every glyph on this shelf is drawn from STROKES - a centreline and a width, every one a line or a circular arc. Recovering this part from a filled outline is image analysis done to get back something the house already holds in source. The measurement is a reader for those skeletons, and it would answer most of the nine at once.