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by czarit 676 days 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)

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> 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_-...

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

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. ;-)
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.