Do you know any good sans fonts where the all the caps accents are connected with the "base glyph"? Like in many fonts, the Å is A and ° joined together (Interstate for example). Are joined accents as a design feature considered as a generally bad idea? Why so?
well, it's considered "bad idea", cause joing the accents to the letter might suggest a special glyph/character on it's own. Many headline faces had the accents tightly close to the letters but still not jointed (if i'm not mistaken).
In the case of the uppercase A with a ring (Å) - it IS actually a character on it's own, so is considered acceptable to be jointed.
I’ve heard several scandinavian actually complaining about joined A-ring.
Also, past acute and breve, if you start joining circumflexes, macrons and umlauts, you’re likely to end up with something ugly and/or unrecognisable.
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