IDK, I don’t think old style and lining figures are analogous to lower- and uppercase letters. They’re not really different glyphs, at least not like lower- and uppercase letters are, and I would see them more as different ways of typesetting the same glyph.
IDK, I don’t think old style and lining figures are analogous to lower- and uppercase letters. They’re not really different glyphs, at least not like lower- and uppercase letters are, and I would see them more as different ways of typesetting the same glyph.
Edit: Wikipedia does not agree with me.