/c/ and /o/ seem very round and wide--what's their relationship to bowled letters like /d/?
/4/ is too dark.
Top serif of /C/G/ is too light. Middle arm of /E/F/ might be a touch too long.
Ampersand is not bad but could perhaps be stiffened up a bit somehow.

@eliason You're probably correct about the caps, thanks. I know /4 isn't right yet, I've already lightened it some but I will have to go further. (The crossbar is actually thinner than the /2 base, it just looks darker next to the heavy stem. Need to revisit some of what's going on there.)

/o is slightly narrower than /b /d if you include the serifs in the calculation. The curve itself is broader but I happen to like the way it looks. Do you think it's a real problem, or just unexpected?

Re ampersand, I may end up pointing the terminal to the right instead (it should help with the awkward spacing issues the character currently has).

Thanks for the feedback!

On those round lowercase letters, don't think about glyph width but rather the width of the counter. I suspect when your /c/o/ is next to /b/d/p/q/, the former will look too wide or the latter too narrow, unless you make those counters closer to each other in area.

Ah, yes. I do see what you mean. I'd thought there was something faintly 'off' in words like "tempore" and "dolores" but I was hung up on trying to fine-tune the letter spacing...

This is exactly why it's good (esp. for a neophyte like me) to have other eyes on it. :) Thanks.

Several characters modified along the lines discussed.

I do think the changed ampersand works better. I've also lightened /4 and tweaked a couple of other numerals.

The appearance of text is indeed somewhat improved. I'll see if I can upload an updated PDF somewhere when I get the chance (can't seem to add attachments to threads anymore).

The triangular spurs on {b q} strike me as a bit jarring among the otherwise quite organic forms. Maybe give it an ever so slight concave curve? And/or a finite-width point?

Those proportions are starting to click.
Now I would reconsider the serif-length. Upper- and lowercase serifs don't have to match, but maybe they should be a little closer to each other than you have here.
Also, watch for where too much bracketing is creating black spots in the capitals, perhaps in places like inside lower left of D and E and inside lower right of K, and definitely in the interior acute serif angles of the thick stroke of X. I'd just try a "smaller radius" curve in those spots (with the K you could try a one-sided serif or other terminal for the leg).
You might have too much overshoot (see the bottom of the stem vs. the bowl of /d/).

@eliason Yes, I find overshoot a bit tricky to calculate optimally. I'll take another look at those. I'm also glad you commented on the inside curve of /B /D /E: I'd been wondering about that myself, so the fact that somebody else shares my concern is a good sign that it does need adjusting. :)

I was also wondering about the lowercase serif length earlier today, although I'm concerned about preserving good text readability. (I may yet decide to fork this into separate display & text versions, but I'm still undecided.)

@Catharsis Something closer to what the spur on /G does, perhaps... e.g. something like the following (blue = existing, black = suggested), maybe?

Thanks to both of you for the helpful feedback!

Much better! :)

Besides the /b /q and /& changes noted above, I've lightened the bracketing slightly in /B /D /E.

I've also shortened the horizontal serifs on the uppercase by around 10-15%. I'm debating whether or not to lengthen the lowercase ones slightly as well.

I've lightened /4 a little, although I'm aware that it (and the numbers in general) still needs more work.

Does anyone think the /a is too narrow? It looks fine on screen, and at display size, but when I print it out at text size it looks awkwardly narrow next to the /e when the two appear together. I'm not sure if that's just my printer, though.

http://www.altsan.org/creative/fonts/alexandrina130703.pdf

I've done an extensive overhaul on this face. I decided it was time to split it off into separate display and text versions. Since I'm generally more interested in text faces, I decided to tackle that version first.

http://www.altsan.org/creative/fonts/alexandrinabk140131.pdf

The glyph shapes have been modified to work better at smaller sizes. The overall contrast has been reduced and the transitions softened. Descenders are shorter, and old-style figures are now the default.

Comments welcome. In particular, how is the overall readability?

Small sizes? The x-height is probably too modest for that (and the descenders still too long).

hhp

@Hrant: Yeah, it's a valid point about the x-height. Taking a look at that will probably be the next step.
Thanks!

I think the basic design is reasonably sound though...