This is it so far. Please let me know what you think.
Thank you John. I was really going for a cursive feeling with the oblique. It's something I haven't seen in many screen fonts and I find it quite appealing.
Again, I aplogize about the double post. It was around midnight last night (for me) and I had been staring at my screen all day. Just took me a couple tries to get it right.
I think this font has some really great features - including the brave attempt at a cursive italic: like that dot on the "i" is genial. But some things make me happy I'm not in your shoes on this one! :-) Also, I'd make the smallcaps one pixel taller.
BTW, your text setting I find pretty encouraging.
hhp
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