greek letter phi(φ) looks bad about eb-garamond HOT 7 OPEN

I think this would be fine

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For what it's worth, I don't think it needs to be changed, but I don't mind the revision.

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No, I think this φ is abnormal and confusing

As in the wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi the phi letter has 2 forms: alphabetical (opened) φ and symbolic (closed) ϕ

It is necessary to distinguish these, as one may not recognize this letter is a phi

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I happen to think the open style looks better in this context, but both styles are valid.

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@dpk I found that the opened and closed phi has been put wrong in your comment

or I should say, opened style is \varphi, closed style is \phi

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The screenshot I posted is how your comment renders on my computer, exactly reversed from how you say they ‘should’ look. The WP page you cite says nothing about open vs closed designs for the alphabetical vs symbolic character codepoints.

It is necessary to distinguish these, as one may not recognize this letter is a phi

As a relatively fluent reader of the Greek alphabet, I can say with confidence that I would recognize both quite clearly as phi. It is as irrelevant to the recognizability of the character as whether Latin a and g have two storeys or one.

I think this issue should be closed as ‘won’t fix’.

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