Roman type
Although there are early examples in Roman type (called "Antiqua" in a German context) of a -ligature that looks like the letter , it was not commonly used for ., These forms generally fell out of use in the eighteenth century and were used in Italic text only; German works printed in Roman type in the late 18th and early 19th centuries such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte's did not provide any equivalent to the . Jacob Grimm began using in his (1819), however it varied with word internally. Grimm eventually rejected the use of the character; in their (1838), the Brothers Grimm favored writing it as . The First Orthographic Conference in Berlin (1876) recommended that "ß" be represented as - however, both suggestions were ultimately rejected. In 1879, a proposal for various letter forms was published in the "Journal für Buchdruckerkunst". A committee of the Typographic Society of Leipzig chose the "Sulzbacher form". In 1903 it was proclaimed as the new standard for the Eszett in Roman type.