A lovely addition to the family. Personally, I think that Heinz missed the boat on the S shapes, but a faithful revivalist generally has to dance with the one that brung him or her.
All fine and good, but maybe you should rephrase the part about the languages to something like "Middle-european", "European extended Latin" "all of... except Cyrillic" or something similar. Eastern Europe proper uses Cyrillic except for the Baltic states. Polish is considered belonging to the Western Slavic group, Serbo-Croation (whatever the name should be) uses both. Sorry for the nitpick.
Eastern Europe proper uses Cyrillic except for the Baltic states.
Huh? Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania all use the Latin script. Only Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro use Cyrillic in Eastern Europe. (Perhaps, though, it is reasonable to view the Czech Republic and Slovakia as being, like Germany, in Central Europe.)
Of course, technically, one could refer to the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia as being part of Eastern Europe too, as they are, or are partly, west of the Ural Mountains, but normally in English "Eastern Europe" means the former Warsaw Pact states (and Yugoslavia).
Personally, I think that Heinz missed the boat on the S shapes.
I keep reading the /O/o/ as /V/v/. But I have a serious crush on that /a/. An interesting problem is how to use unconventional structures like that in ligatures/dipthongs like /ae/. I don't love the bottom stem in this /ae/ and remove that part of /a/ as a matter of course when designing /ae/, but in this case I wonder if it's helping to make the quirky /a/-half legible.
Personally, I think that Heinz missed the boat on the S shapes, but a faithful revivalist generally has to dance with the one that brung him or her.
I blame that on the typeface being originally designed to serve a language community used to Fraktur, and so a stylistic alternate would not be a bad idea if the typeface is to be used more broadly.
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But I have a serious crush on that /a/.
An interesting problem is how to use unconventional structures like that in ligatures/dipthongs like /ae/. I don't love the bottom stem in this /ae/ and remove that part of /a/ as a matter of course when designing /ae/, but in this case I wonder if it's helping to make the quirky /a/-half legible.
I blame that on the typeface being originally designed to serve a language community used to Fraktur, and so a stylistic alternate would not be a bad idea if the typeface is to be used more broadly.