> You only need 62 glyphs for a basic Latin alphabet (although gutenberg’s german would require a few more), Gutenberg's bible used ligatures and various symbo

> You only need 62 glyphs for a basic Latin alphabet (although gutenberg’s german would require a few more), Gutenberg's bible used ligatures and various symbols too, that ups the count a lot. I haven't counted them myself, but wikipedia says 290 characters and cites John Man's book about Gutenberg. A paper I found about using ML to do cluster analysis on the glyphs says 299 unique glyphs and cites Gottfried Zedler. I can't read either of those sources, but a bit less than 300 seems like a safe bet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible#Type https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible#Type https://deepai.org/publication/classifying-the-typefaces-of-the-gutenberg-42-line-bible https://deepai.org/publication/classifying-the-typefaces-of-...