+This font is just the same as Alexey Kryukov's beautiful *Old
+Standard*.[^1] In comparison to *Old Standard*, *Old Standard T*
+includes new letters and some corrections:
+
+1. Small capitals for Roman, Greek and Cyrillic letters, in all three
+ styles, Regular, Italic and Bold have been added. Small capitals,
+ which are missing from *Old Standard*, were already in use a
+ century ago in fine books which used font faces very similar to
+ *Old Standard*. Typical use cases of small capitals were headers,
+ current headings and in some books proper names.
+2. The letter G with caron above, that is: Ǧ (`U+01E6`, uppercase) and
+ ǧ (`U+01E7`, lowercase) has been added. It is the only character
+ missing from *Old Standard* that is needed in some of the accepted
+ standards of romanization of classical Arabic.[^2]
+3. Additionally, *Old Standard T* corrects the `+ss06` feature
+ provided by *Old Standard*. This feature is supposed to distinguish
+ between regular and ‘curled’ beta (β/ϐ) and to print ‘curled’ beta
+ (`U+03D0`) in medial position. This feature works in most cases
+ with *Old Standard*. However, it fails if the beta is preceded by a
+ vowel with an acute accent taken from the *Greek extended* Unicode
+ block.
+
+### Why *Old Standard T*?
+At the time of writing, *Old Standard* was last updated six years
+ago. Nevertheless, the letter `T` stands for *Transient*, which means
+that *Old Standard T*, should only stay as long as what it features is
+not included in *Old Standard*.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+Please refer to Alexey Kryukov's documentation which is can be found
+here: <http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/oldstandard/doc/oldstand-manual.pdf>
+
+[^1]: See <https://github.com/akryukov/oldstand>
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