"Nieuwe Javaansche" style of Noto Sans Javanese

Get the feedback below. Need to investigate on whether "Nieuwe Javaansche" 
style is the right thing to follow.

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The structure of many letters and the form of some diacritic marks -- notably 
/uniA981/uniA9B3/uniA9B7/uniA9C7/uniA981_uniA9BC -- seem to be influenced by 
the Nieuwe Javaansche typeface introduced by Tetterode in 1912. This typeface 
was based on proposals for simplifying the Javanese script made by P. Penninga, 
Dutch representative of the British Bible Society. I would be very cautious 
about taking this approach in a Javanese font today, but I really have no idea 
how Penninga's ideas are regarded or how easily his proposed forms are 
recognised by users familiar with the traditional script. However, this design 
decision seems to be behind the criticisms made in
https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=149
The characteristics of the Nieuwe Javaansche forms seen in the Noto font are 
the collapse of smaller counters into single vertical strokes, even on the 
leading edge of letters such as U+098F, which one doesn't see in either the 
formal or cursive manuscript styles. These are the things drawn attention to in 
the <comparison.png> attachment to issue 149.

Although adapting many forms from the Nieuwe Javaansche, it should be noted 
that Noto Sans Javanese is not a strict implementation of Tetterode's type for 
Penninga, but is a hybrid of different styles. The descender forms used in the 
font -- notably the U and UU vowel signs -- are derived from neither the 
upright formal manuscript style nor Nieuwe Javaansche, but are instead based on 
the forms of the cursive, slanted style. These work quite well with the Nieuwe 
Javaansche-inspired letter shapes, and are simpler than the usual upright 
forms, and hence easier to handle in the short descender space allotted.
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Original issue reported on code.google.com by xian...@google.com on 28 Mar 2015 at 1:13

gongshoudao / noto

"Nieuwe Javaansche" style of Noto Sans Javanese #314