ḃ and ḋ (b & d with dot above)

[Moilleadoir]

The dots on these letters are over the stem instead of the bowl. The main language which uses these is Irish and no Irish-specific fonts ever do this. It looks awkward and wrong. Could it be changed?

[miguelsousa]

Yes, it will be changed. Thanks for the feedback.

[robinwhittleton]

Weirdly (on macOS 10.14 at least) this is the same behaviour in the system font:

[yvvt0379]

And on my android phone, these symbols look like this:

[moyogo]

The dots on these letters are over the stem instead of the bowl.

Did you mean like this first one, lower than the ascender height and centered on the bowl?

Or did you mean like this second one, higher than the ascender height and centered on the whole letter?

[Moilleadoir]

Sorry for the slow reply. Definitely like the first one. This originated in manuscripts and was used more generally in Gaelic typefaces.

Example from Lebor na hUidre (11-12th century):

Some examples of Gaelic fonts:

Roman fonts:

[pauldhunt]

What is most likely happening is that you are getting fallback glyphs for these characters because they are not currently supported in the released version of the fonts. I will look into adding them to a future release.