
Oksana overall strikes me as a charming design, but I've been curious about some of its solutions. Most notably, the single-descender de – is that a done thing? is it meant as an intermediary form between print and handwriting?
I'm also intrigued by the hard sign which seems efficient, spacing-wise.
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The corresponding ungainly elements of roman caps are the tails of J and Q, but there are many comfortable above-the-baseline ways to handle those.
Yes, for some reason Д can easily live without these descending strokes, while Ц can't
On some occasions, Д can go even without horizontal extensions on the baseline, looking like a plain triangle (like Greek Δ) in that case.
On the other side, I agree with Vasil, if they are present (which is the case in the vast majority of typefaces), they are an integral part of the "default orthographic shape" present both in serif and sans-serif styles.
In handwriting, I usually don't make the left descending stroke but only the right one (and I make it diagonal not vertical), because these descending parts are indeed tiring when writing longer text
The result of forced Cyrillization / creation of a writing system of the times of the USSR for non-Slavic languages. Therefore, there should be no question why, in some cases, there is a return to the Latin alphabet - Moldova, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan...
Thanks to Olexa for mentioning g form in this context
In Serbia, we use the term "PRINTED LETTERS" for upright letterforms no matter are they printed or handwritten. In contrast, "WRITTEN LETTERS" are cursive/connected/script-style letterforms (again no matter are they printed or written, it's the term for letter shape style) and they can be slanted or not.
The small-cap д is "PRINTED LETTER" while g form is "WRITTEN LETTER"
So I would say that д without left descending stroke in your example is "PRINTED LETTER" with the influence of the look of "PRINTED LETTERS" when written by hand, which is exactly how I write