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Yeah, it's akin to a lot of the early humanist typefaces, which I really like. When I had my own law practice, I adopted Bembo as my official typeface wherever possible. The similarities to Gothic make sense, since they're both derived from Greek. One of the things that is screwing with me a little as I begin to learn Coptic myself are actually the similarities to Cyrillic. Except where it's different. So, for example, Ϣ in Coptic is a sh sound, just like Cyrillic Ш (but not Щ). Easy enough. But then you have this little fucker: Ϥ. My brain wants this to be ch sound, just like Cyrillic Ч. But no, it's f. The ch in Coptic is Ϭ, which is of course more-or-less identical to Cyrillic б. Hashtag polyglotproblems.