Thanks again my Typophile friends! :)

Pieter

Jason, where is the best place for the circumflex on lower case "h" -- above the ascender or the hump?
(That's an Esperanto accent, isn't it?)

Eskimo someone?
:)

Pieter

Nick--

Yes, that's an Esperanto accent. The circumflex for hcircumflex should be above the ascender. At least that's where I've always seen it, and that's where I always put it, although I'm not aware of any authoritative rule about its placement. I've thought about putting it lower (especially when the ascender is above the capheight), but that just causes other problems, like illegibility, for one.

--Jason

Nick,
The most current Adobe faces (see Arno) put the circumflex over the ascender. I assume they checked that out thoroughly with good sources.

ChrisL

I certainly agree with that, Nick. I was just chiming in that Adobe agreed with Jason on placement so 2 bases were covered.

ChrisL

Nick--

I center the circumflex over the whole letter (h) and that seems to be the general practice in Esperanto literature -- although Arno Pro has it centered over the ascender. (The latter approach is more likely to cause spacing problems, I think.) As you said, Adobe is not infallible. The hcircumflex in Esperanto is the least used of the accented letters, and in fact there is a trend to substitute 'k' for it if that does not cause confusion with other words. Of course, that's beside the point; I think it's worthwhile to design our diacritics to follow common usage in the respective languages as best we can, but that's a whole other topic!