Carter & Cone did it so ask question at “Info@CarterandCone.com”

Goran,

Could you comment on what was wrong with those characters before?

Sure,

When you type this: iåiäiö with Galliard (and other “older” fonts) – you clearly see that the diacritics are very much jumping up and down.

In the swedish language we use these letters alot in a different combinations and it doesnt look good if the diacritics are not adjusted (as they mostly are today in “newer” or recently updated fonts)

Type iåiäiö here:
http://www.myfonts.com/search?search%5Btext%5D=galliard

And also compare Adobes garamond with other Garamonds here, on these letters.

http://www.myfonts.com/search?search%5Btext%5D=garamond

So Matthew Carter did a special Scandinavian edition of his Galliard which is called Galliard Scandinavian. There is a nice story behind it aswell, as told by my collegue Gary Newman, but he is going to tell it so much better than me so I wont even dare to try :)