Nice. I'm curious, what exactly is the Arabic connection?

BTW, considering the connection, "Aida" would've been my choice. :-)

hhp

Imfi would have been a good name... initial, medial, final and isolated

The knock-out version is, er, a knock-out!

Quite a few OpenType Script fonts, in the Latin alphabet, already have contextual alternates dependent on word-position, so I would say this is something that may be suggested by cursive scripts in general, not just Arabic--but developing it into negative space is a very clever invention.

Well, Fimi is a Near Eastern girl's name; it's short for something,
but I forget what. Aida is cool because -in Arabic- it includes two
very Arabic sounds: a 'ain and a hamza. Plus it's an opera. I saw it
in Rome as a kid, and I remember one thing from it: they brought
out real camels on stage!

hhp

Nice range and brilliant definitions, great!

VEEEERY nice and useful font. Like allways from Typotheque. GREAT!!!!

Lasko

P.S. Cyrillic version is on the way ????

I am interested by your decision not to do overshoots for the round letters. You don't think it's a problem? Or you think that the benefit of stacking is more important?

Nice. Not a fan of the ampersand though.

penn

Thanks.

@skolato
We are considering Cyrillic (since most of our fonts have Cyrillic support), but it is to a high priority at the moment. We'll see how will Irma do.

@William Berkson
I have designed this typeface for a logo originally (http://www.steppinggrounds.com/) and I was annoyed by large overshoots even in Display typefaces. Yes you need them in smaller sizes, but not having them allows creating typographic layouts impossible to make with overshoots. Just look at how the logo used on that website, it works much better without them.

I was thinking of these kind of applications too (http://www.flickr.com/photos/typotheque/3871608837/) Again, only possible if no overshoots are used.