It is one of the most difficult and badly drawn characters ever, probably because of its illusional simplicity.

Kreska ukośna is appears only in the letter ł ( lslash, barred l , pronounced ew ). This letter should not be drawn like the British pound sign!

There seem to be two different approaches to draw the Polish small ew .

Many typographers follow this rule, among them Stefan Szczypka , who has drawn many of the diacritics used in this manual.

One of approaches is traditional , where the stroke is visually centered on the l . This is the approach I prefer, as it guarantees the required minimum of decipherability of the ew glyph against the small t letter.

The second, unorthodox approach has been proposed by Polish typographer Andrzej Tomaszewski, the son on Roman Tomaszewski (R.I.P.), the famous Polish typographer and long-year member of ATypI board. This approach suggests that the stroke of ew should cross l at the height of the t stroke. The rule is simple, but, as I stated above, the simplicity is illusional. The danger of this method is, that the ew glyph may be easily misread as t. It also gives a kind of "distorted" small caps line. Kuba Tatarkiewicz, who has prepared several hundred fonts for use in Poland (licensed from Bitstream and ITC) follows this method.