My first impression is that the combination looks kind of weird, because normally (i.e. in old books) it is exactly the other way around: few words in roman face turn up in the majority of the text being set in Fraktur.
x: try wrapping back the descender, I don't think that it is a problem when this descender is not as long as the other ones.
i: why no dot? This makes your face even harder to read. If you really need a "dotless i" glyph, put it in this position… ;-)
s: is there a long s variant planned? this would solve some of the s’s problem that appears to be too dark. Also, the whole glyph looks rotated left compared to the antiqua s. And try to improve the kerning (see the word "test" for what I mean).
So I got bored and decided to ttry my hand at making a fraktur face. However, I decided to see how well I could get it to "match" my antiqua font Coruña. Obviously I ran into a few issues when trying to juxtapose antiqua and fraktur. First, the fraktur is naturally a lot close of a font, with more thick lines than antiqua, as well as a lot "busier". I decided I wasn't going to remove the essence of the fraktur script, and insterad focus on designing one that works as a perfect compliment to Coruña — an interesting task given that Coruña has a very low x-height and very large descenders and ascenders, very uncommon for fraktur. So, rather than expand the fraktur to match the width and colour of the antiqua, I slightly reduced its weight. The long descenders have the same feel as the antiqua ones, so I think it was somewhat successfull, especially when I squint my eyes and I can't pick out a given word as being fraktur, so the colour is matched well.
The main thing I'm thinking is that I might not have the perceived x-height quite lined up, and that maybe my x's descender should be of the type that wraps back around under the x itself.. What do y'all think?
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