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Nice work

I would like microns on the vowles, as we type a lot of Māori words....

Same here for diacritics in Vietnamese. There are very few font sets which natively support our vast range of diacritics.

Out of curiosity, what would you say is the most accurate/comprehensive resource for learning about these?

This one is the go-to site for VN designers:

https://vietnamesetypography.com/

Is a micron the name of the straight line over the 'a' in Māori? A single pixel line over a bunch of a's is tremendously simple to do in pixel fonts, I could probably add that to all the fonts in a day... hmmmm

The straight bars over vowels are called “macrons” in English. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron_(diacritic)

In Māori, there are ā, ē, ī, ō and ū.

Ahh yes there it is, thanks for clarifying. These are quite simple and would be easy to support.

Apologies if this nerd-snipes you, but supporting the caron might also be fairly simple given you could just vertically flip the circumflex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron

Together with the macron, pinyin (the main romanization for Chinese) would be mostly supported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin

Great suggestion, I would not have discovered this easily. thanks!

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