Suggestions

[damaru2]

First of all, thank for your work. It's probably the only font I've seen that tries to make it easy to differentiate symbols at small scales and thus making them more suitable for a font. However, for some particular symbols I think the choice makes the drawing to go too far from their original meaning or present some other traits that I think could be improved. So I thought I could drop you here some suggestions.

• pona ike lupa nena In the same way linja or lape are not tall symbols, I don't thing there is any need to make pona and ike tall. But I think it's very important to feel that pona and ike are a smile and the opposite. So I think a symbol of the same height as linja for both pona and ike would be better. That would make possible to have lupa and nena getting the current symbols for pona and ike, which are their symbols in sitelen pona.

• sinpin monsi poka Getting the line inside breaks completely it's intuitive meaning. I get that you don't want disconnected segments on the sides of the symbols because one could think they belong to adjacent symbols, but why not to use vertical lines on the sides of the symbols with a small connection? Like one of the options here for poka (line on the side being as tall as possible, same thing but being not so tall, or possibly without the connection since presumably the whole horizontal length of the character is constant so there could actually be no confusion). I don't know, any of these three options is more pona tawa mi than the segment inside.

• selo In small font size, it's hard to tell apart from sijelo. Consider painting black the outer part of the selo. That is, one vertical black strip, one white strip and another black strip.

• kin Why not to have the symbol as a but with an asterisk instead of a circle? as linja pona kin which I believe is the standard almost everyone uses.

The following two are more like a personal preference to me rather than things that I more or less objectively think that the community would like:

• a This is a bit ugly. Other approaches like the linja pimeja a or the insa pi supa lape a seem to solve the problem with your same restrictions in a more nasin pona to me.

• seme I personally do not like to use "?" at all when writing in sitelen pona. That's just a habit coming from other languages and the character is lating. Using seme or the verb ala verb structure "?" is not needed at all. I understand that there are some people that could want to use "?" out of habit (for instance, in the telegram group sitelen pona taso I would say currently the people that use it vs that do not use it it's half and half), but I don't know if that justifies the use of the current symbols, which is very far from inspiring a question onto the reader. I personally would make it look like a "?" which would actually prompt people to stop using the latin "?". Or alternatively I would make the circle smaller and draw a bit more of the question mark.

Well, those are my suggestions, I hope you found some (or all) of them helpful

[Hate9]

I think most of those suggestions look good, but a should probably not look like either of your examples, as the intent was to move away from anglo/eurocentrism.