It looks cool, but to my eyes, acutes and breves are too wide (maybe others too, but these are the most used in Italian).
Making them narrower could help to increase their angle too.

thanks for the feedback -- this was actually the one thing i planned on keeping, as i had tried out shorter diacritics, but they didn't look good to me.

in addition to that, vietnamese and other extended latin characters stack diacritics which effectively restricts using steep inclines or declines -- here's an example to illustrate what i mean (pinyin tones -- macron, acute and caron on top of dieresis):

another problem would be that i'd have to change the dot accent and dieresis as well in order to maintain distinctiveness, as the other accents are based on them and it would disrupt the overall appearance -- but i will consider adding alternatives, thanks again for the suggestion. updates to follow.

The acute and grave could be better distinguished if you cut them in half and made the low end start at or near the center of the letter.

I don't quite think percent works as a nut fraction.

You'll probably have to start over with the eszett after you've learned more about it.

But a really good job on such things as the section sign, pilcrow, asterisk...

I think you will have an hard time with the kreska (http://www.twardoch.com/download/polishhowto/kreska.html) ;-)
Seriously, I think that designing diacritics for a display face such as this one presents even more trade-offs than usual.
Overall, it seems that you are concentrating more on an aesthetic model and less on actual usage and recognisability.
Code-point completeness is a vain goal if the result isn't usable.
Make those accents fat! :-)
By the way, in this style of type, diacritics often reach above the ascenders. There are also several threads on the topic of diacritics, and about vietnamese ones (http://www.google.com/search?q=vietnamese+diacritics+site%3Atypophile.com).

thanks for the links, riccardo!

I think you will have an hard time with the kreska
i have a hard time with the entire font so far ... i think the kreska aspect is something way beyond my scope, requiring glyph substitution and ot programming (i'm just an interested layman). i will probably have to sacrifice typographic accuracy in this case.

1. Overall, it seems that you are concentrating more on an aesthetic model and less on actual usage and recognisability. 2. Code-point completeness is a vain goal if the result isn't usable.
1. i don't know if the two are really mutually exclusive. 2. i'm a completist, there's no way this will change anytime soon.
as a matter of fact, i had made a pdf specimen with sample paragraphs in various languages -- it looked alright to me in croat, german and french (which i speak). but you have a valid point nonetheless.

the pdf (italian included, plus a number of other languages, eastern and western european):
http://www.mediafire.com/?iof46nel7jxun1y

Make those accents fat! :-)
alright, alright! consider it on the list. this means i will have to start over again ... wonderful (especially if i take into account how anal i am about never letting go of unifinished things).

what bothers me more than the accents right now is still the way the đ (croat d) and the ħ (h bar) turned out.

The acute and grave could be better distinguished if you cut them in half and made the low end start at or near the center of the letter.
as written above, i'll make an alternative version with heavy diacritics. the original had three characters with diacritics (strictly speaking there are five, with the i and the j): ä, ö and ü -- i took their design as the starting point for the others.

You'll probably have to start over with the eszett after you've learned more about it.
kevin, i'm german.
but if you mean typographic conventions, then you're correct. the current shape has been a deliberate decision (which doesn't mean that it's right -- i happened to like the flow of the form coalescing). thanks!

I will check the PDF. In the meantime, if you don't know it already:
http://diacritics.typo.cz/

yes, i had already bookmarked that. :D

Well, that's kind of a shock. I have to reexamine what I've learned about the eszett, then, even if it is meant to be a creative departure from the norm.

I have to reexamine what I've learned about the eszett
not really -- the fact that i'm a native speaker doesn't mean anything in this context -- as i wrote in my initial post, i am no type designer (or any kind of designer -- i'm from the legal field ... doh!), so more likely than not, i have blatantly ignored or rather gratuitously broken fundamental rules. it looks nice to me -- but then again, many people don't mind using the acute or even grave accent in lieu of an apostrophe ... hence, no worries -- if in doubt, it's a mistake on my part.

hej don dada,

great work! i know timos "say it fat" from 26plus-zeichen.
awesome you are upgrading it the latin2 and more!

i'm german - hence an eszett native speacker:-)

your "ſ-s"-combination is too wide, beacause it looks still like two gyphs. that'n not bad, beacsue it originaly was a ligature once, but up to know it's an single gyph.

i like your variant which makes the "ß" look more than a "ſ-s" than a "B".

if you are interested, here is a similar idea, which i had for my http://26plus-zeichen.de/fonts/graphit/:
-> don't know how to emdedd an image, so this is the link :-)

i know timos "say it fat" from 26plus-zeichen.
jopp ... da habe ich die schrift auch her. ;)

unfortunately, i am short on time right now -- but i will post images and and an explanation of why i initially chose the version i did (revisions and other possible versions to follow).

you have an option below the post saying "insert image" -- when you click it, you can upload and include an image in your post (die "graphit" ist obergeil, ganz nebenbei -- ich hoffe, wir normalsterblichen kommen auch irgendwann in ihren genuss, haha).

and below is "say it fat" in cyrillic (russian) <- this is part of the cyrillic codepage that was nearly finished before i started the thread here: