This Isn’t an “f” — It’s Isaac Newton’s “S”



Isaac Newton’s original letters used the “long s” (ſ), a medieval typographic convention that survived into the 17th century.
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7 Comments

  1. Thanks man. There seems to be a convention now that if something does not weigh much, it should be spelled as lite , and the visible one is spelled as light.

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