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Tiro Typeworks on Nostr: nprofile1q…ppajl What languages are you targeting? It is worth bearing in mind that ...

What languages are you targeting? It is worth bearing in mind that French is the only modern European language in which both æ and œ occur, but even there use of æ is rare.

In Mediaeval and Early Modern Latin texts both occur frequently, but these days ae and oe are strongly preferred.

To my knowledge, very few orthographies anywhere use both these letters.* So the possibility of confuseability of the italic forms is less of a practical concern than one might think simply from looking at the shapes.

* can probably identify those that do.