But how much can you improve the shapes, spacing and features of a design that is so tried and tested? I made a comparison between the early KABK master Meret, the 2011 OurType Meret, which had a lot of valuable improvements already, and the idea of Meret I now carried in my head.
For the e, I came back to a shape from my very early design. The weight spectrum was extended with the addition of the initially planned book weight. Some more letters like s or c got tiny improvements, in particular the diacritical marks and punctuation were redrawn. Further the capital ß — as endorsed by the Council for German Orthography in June 2017 — was introduced to Meret, as well as nice discretionary ligatures.
For the figures I decided to change their default encoding: the enlarged oldstyle figures are standard now. All other variants are easy accessible via OpenType features. Additionally the tabular figures were tweaked to improve their fitting in all weights.
And last but not least, as I do in general with my latest releases, some arrow variants, ornamental quotes, geometric shapes were added to provide a palette of helpful icons.