Lovely!

There's an article about contextual alternates by Nick Shinn on I Love Typography, which you may find useful, and loads of entries on Typophile which will help you out with the coding.

I think you're right to stick to all caps, but if you do decide to add lowercase, I'd keep the x-height BIG, verging on unicase territory.

On a side note, I'd reconsider Abraham as a name - that sounds to me like a stuffy text serif font, but that's just my opinion!

Hey Dave!

Thanks for the kind words. I kinda like Abraham as it's a bit old and rough on the sides (that's my personal feeling of the name though). A plus would be that it's going to have a good position in alphabetical lists :)

I'm considering doing lowercase as well, but as you suggested, they'd have to be rather big also. Big x-height would be a good thing here I think, so thanks!

Will check out that article (have already read parts of it) and look for more info here too. Thanks!

Hey pals, long time.... I was unable to follow up on this typeface - a long story - but I'm back now and ready to move forward. Suggestions both on name and font development are most definitely welcome!

I like this.

A, M, W, and maybe Z could be a bit narrower.

Thanks for the comment Craig. Good points about those 4 letters, here's what I did:

Especially the M and W benefited I feel. Thanks!

Working on numbers - any ideas about the alternative 9 and 6?

Capitals, numbers and (punctiation) symbols:

Since your figures are a little shorter you need to adjust $£% etc. to their vertical proportions.
Counter of 4 gets a little too small.

Thanks, good pointers there! Working on those now.

Still tempted to work on lowercase letters as well. As Dave suggested a long time ago I might opt for lowercase variants of these uppercase letters, same height as the uppercase letters possibly. That would give a user some alternatives when writing without me having to sacrifice the display property of the typeface.

Any pointers on kerning by the way? I read up on class kerning - are there new features for this in Fontlab these days, or does one still need to write the classes manually? (not sure if that is how you are supposed to do it but that's how I did it the last time)