I don't know if there are any words which begin with Eth or Lslash, but if there are, would the following be read as them? I think if I can get away with looping the stem for the crossbar of eth, I should be able to use a similar treatment for the uppercase.

Yeah, like when you care about how stuff looks.

hhp

In my opinion, eð and Eð are both too similar to usual swash variations of d and D. I initially read aðan as adan, I'm afraid. (Disclaimer: I am not Icelandic, but to some extent I read Old Norse and its daughter languages, of which one is my native tongue.) Your Þorn is very good, though I want to see just slightly more stem over the bowl (which I think safely can be made a little shallower.)

Yeah I read the eths as d's too, but I read them as d in every font, and I read Thorns as P's. Comes with not being exposed to them I guess. So it's good to get somebody who's used to eths and thorns to offer their opinion. What do you think to the new batch?

Latin Extended A is the list you need.
I think this is more than I was going for(!) but I suppose most will just be composites. Worth trying as a learing experience I suppose.

It is also a good idea to include uni1E9E, uppercase double s from Extended B.
In a script font where all-caps use is certainly not to be encouraged? I was half considering adding a lookup to the calt feature which would sense all-caps usage and urge the writer to reconsider, but then I realised that would be somewhat snooty. If I felt it was worthwhile I might draw extra glyphs for all-caps use for accronyms, but I can't imagine all that many situations where this font would be used in that situation.

Better?

Yeah I'm looking forward to getting stuck into it. It's a daunting task though because of the sheer amount of glyphs that I'll need to make. There's all the accented characters but then there's alternate forms needed for a lot of them. Last count I had 24 glyphs involving t - ligatures, alternates, end forms...
Still, whatever holds off sorting out the left hand side bearings of those caps is a good thing!

And why French "r" in Królewskie?
Is that form intrinsically French? As for the reason, there is none really, except that's the kind of r I drew first and it fits better in the font. Just for you, I had a quick bash at doing a regular r to put in as an alternate, and it looked even worse than the swash Euro symbol I've just binned ;-)

Really interesting - thanks for the link. You mean like this:

I'll have another go at alternate r, and I'll try that lslash with the slash over the top.

Sindre, you are absolutely wrong regarding tcaron glyph. Your sentence "(a couple of Slavic languages used that, both are now preferably set with apostrophe instead)" made me laugh, sorry.

You can't replace the glyph tcaron by t + apostrophe, this is like replacing W by VV.

The letter ť represents a distinctive sound and can be found in Czech and Slovak languages only. Although the diacritical marks is called háček (caron) it has a special vertical form, sometimes similar to a comma or an apostrophe.

You can find a plain apostrophe placed next to the letter only in poorly designed fonts. Unfortunately such an arrogant approach is quite widespread. The result of this is simple: the fonts can't be used for typesetting Czech or Slovak and professional designers avoid such typefaces.

If you'd like to see a good samples of tcaron, please visit Storm Type, TypeTogether or Suitcase Type Foundries to name a few.

Please read very careful explanation how to design this kind of caron which is btw. used also together with d (ď) and l/L (ľ/Ľ; not to be confused with ĺ/Ĺ).

http://diacritics.typo.cz/index.php?id=5

Post Scriptum: The letter t followed by an apostrophe is also used in Czech language, but the meaning is different: the apostrophe represents missing letter, but you can only find it in poems or in an attempt to write slang pronunciation. This is another reason you can't replace ť by t'.

You can't replace the glyph tcaron by t + apostrophe, this is like replacing W by VV. [...] Unfortunately such an arrogant approach is quite widespread.

I apologise, the reason for my statement is a hasty misreading of The Unicode Consortium's Latin Extended A code chart: "Latin small letter t with caron: The form using apostrophe is preferred in all typesetting."

Thank you for clearing this up.

For the record: All my typefaces has uni0165, with the caron (in its apostrophe-like form) placed with care. (As well as all other Extended A glyphs and a well-thought-out selection of Extended B glyphs). This mistake is indeed very embarrassing for me.

That's very cool! I suppose it builds the underline as you type so you can just eyeball how many underscores to add?

I find this pair feels a little off. I think the r feel too big. Perhaps a different o to connect with it so the entrance stroke can be lower?

Dollop.

hhp

PS - thickened the loop in o|v|w|b glyphs so the weight difference between them and r is not as pronounced

I like it!

IJ/ij is vor der Nederlands.

Be free, man.
http://typophile.com/node/34111

hhp

That last /I/ of /IJ/ looks too much like a /T/, I fear. What does your /Y/ look like? I do like the connected tittles.

Check Adam's guide for script lslash placement: http://www.twardoch.com/download/polishhowto/stroke.html

Fear not, ldot and Ldot are in there.

I attempted Adam's script lslash and failed miserably. One more go then I'm admitting defeat and sticking with this cramped one.

Thanks Janek.
So the lslash should not have a loop. Is the slash part of it ok? I can switch the sacute to that one without a lead-in easily enough. Is it worth doing this with scaron and scircumflex too? What's your take on my endform ogoneks - smooth or looped?
Another thing - you said the script r was not recognisable to you - should I put the alternate r as default for Polish? Anyone know of any other languages where script r should be avoided, or would it be best to leave it up to the individual user and leave it as a stylistic set?
Dutch - should IJ and ij ligatures be default for Dutch or not?

>>Is the slash part of it ok?<< Could be more like "tilde". A bit too heavy on the right side? I think you are on the right path now, "Jagiełło" looks quite good.
>>What's your take on my endform ogoneks - smooth or looped?<< picture please...
>>would it be best to leave it (r.alt) up to the individual user and leave it as a stylistic set?<< I think the latter is better solution - after all it is user who decide which form to chose.
Regarding Polish acutes - I think they are a bit too bent and as a consequence point somewhere far left, not point at own letters. See Adam comment on Palatino and Georgia here: http://www.twardoch.com/download/polishhowto/kreska.html . And here I vote for LOCL feature. BTW the more vertical "Polish kreska" helps when is followed by letters with ascender, like "ćb" in "choćbyś".

In these negligent samples you can see that the move which creates left side of "e" is repeted (only smaller) as an ogonek.