Still hoping for someone to design a font for J with ligatures so it can match APL's beauty for reading without making it more difficult to type, i.e. automatically rendering /: as ⍋, |: as ⍉, |. as ⌽, etc.
I don't know if it's intentional, but the clumsy character shapes, the haphazard line weights and the "bleeding ink" effect whenever there is a curve or a corner give it a strong "early DTP" aura. Or possibly even earlier, like a mimeographed pamphlet in the late 1960s, when APL was new.
Kerning on Cyrillic is pretty much awful with this font. Ever on the example string it looks like there is a space between Ь and Э, and Ш and Щ are almost glued together.
It's interesting to me to see these projects as alt-history, and see them as the dead-end technical choice that they were.<p>Has any programming language since then tried to use more than ASCII for its keywords?