two suggestions for polytonic Greek

[ousia]

@rsms,

after playing a bit with Inter, I thought that some minor changes may improve the polytonic Greek glyphs a lot.

Following the guide from Irene Vlachou on how to design polytonic Greek glyphs, I think there are some details to consider:

1. The oxia (Greek for acute) is identical with tonos (Greek for accent), https://irenevl.github.io/Polytonic-tutorial/#design-of-accents.
2. It is a good idea to mirror varia (Greek for grave) from oxia.
3. Dasia (Greek for rough [breathing]) is similar to a c or a mirrored apostrophe, https://irenevl.github.io/Polytonic-tutorial/#design-of-breathings.
4. Psili (Greek for smooth [breathing]) is basically a mirrored dasia.

With this in mind, I think it is best to mirror the Greek acute accent (oxia) to get the Greek grave accent (varia).

With transparencies, it is clear that the original Greek grave accent is thinner.

Breathings are mirrored from each other. Rotating each breathing 15° helps to give the impression of the image of c or apostrophe.

Applying both suggestions, the left column has the original glyphs and the right column has the suggested modifications:

What do you think about these tiny modifications? To give some context, here you have Source Sans Variable and InterV to compare (click to enlarge):

Just in case it might give you some ideas. Congratulations for your excellent work with this font.

[ousia]

@rsms,

as for spirits, I think that rotating the ogonek 180° (and resizing it to 75%) would do the trick for the smooth spirit. Mirroring the result would to the trick for the rough spirit.

Just in case it might help.

[ousia]

Reducing ogonek to 85% (with proper rotation and mirroring when required), results are fine:

Just in case it might help.

[rsms]

Lovely.

This would be a perfect project for someone looking to contribute to Inter!

If that's you, reader, let us know if you start working on this so that we can avoid duplicate work :-)

Tracked in this "issue": #489

[rsms]

I finished up a major revamp of Greek over the past week.
Here's what Inter version 4 looks like:

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[ousia]

Many thanks for the new release, @rsms.

It looks great now.

[rsms]

Thank you :•)