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Very nice! One question: I was curious why you chose this subset of Scandinavian special characters. There are three extended chars in Swedish (äöå) and Norweg

by czarit 2y ago

Very nice! One question: I was curious why you chose this subset of Scandinavian special characters. There are three extended chars in Swedish (äöå) and Norwegian/Danish (æøå), but your fonts have æ, but not ø, which means you could drop the æ and still support Swedish, or add an ø to also support Norwegian and Danish. Was this an oversight or is there some locale that has just æ and not ø? (and before anyone asks I did not confuse æ with the oe-ligature œ, which is a different glyph used in French, and which the fonts also do support)

kd5bjo 2y ago
> Was this an oversight or is there some locale that has just æ and not ø? Well, Icelandic uses ö in place of ø, but also requires ð and ý which are not included. Æ is sometimes used in older English texts, though, in words like “encyclopædia” or in plurals of latin-derived words: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_plurals_in_-ae_with_singular_in_-a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_plurals_in_-...
- kd5bjo 2y ago
  For completeness, Icelandic also requires Þ which I somehow forgot when writing the above comment.
chevyray 2y ago
This was just an oversight. I actually got very far into the project before I realized that ø was missing from my set. It’s something that I could definitely go through and patch into all the fonts, but I was waiting to see if there was enough demand for the effort. I think supporting two more languages would be very cool though.
- kipari 2y ago
  From a Dane that finds multiple of these fonts gorgeous and highly appreciate the elaborate kern pairs: please consider patching the fonts with an ø. ;-)
  - chevyray 2y ago
    I will absolutely consider it. I am getting some good ideas from other comments as well, so I'll put those in my project notes to do as a possible update to the fonts.

by czarit 2y ago

kd5bjo 2y ago

> Was this an oversight or is there some locale that has just æ and not ø? Well, Icelandic uses ö in place of ø, but also requires ð and ý which are not included. Æ is sometimes used in older English texts, though, in words like “encyclopædia” or in plurals of latin-derived words: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_plurals_in_-ae_with_singular_in_-a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_plurals_in_-...

kd5bjo 2y ago
For completeness, Icelandic also requires Þ which I somehow forgot when writing the above comment.

chevyray 2y ago

This was just an oversight. I actually got very far into the project before I realized that ø was missing from my set. It’s something that I could definitely go through and patch into all the fonts, but I was waiting to see if there was enough demand for the effort. I think supporting two more languages would be very cool though.

kipari 2y ago
From a Dane that finds multiple of these fonts gorgeous and highly appreciate the elaborate kern pairs: please consider patching the fonts with an ø. ;-)
- chevyray 2y ago
  I will absolutely consider it. I am getting some good ideas from other comments as well, so I'll put those in my project notes to do as a possible update to the fonts.