Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Launch Timing

    Fair enough. First week or so can work. General wisdom and experience at Font Bureau, though, was that December releases were disadvantaged. We might release an expansion, because that was often aime…
  • Re: Coolangatta

    Of course, you can’t just lower the heights of your lowercase letters and expect proportions to still look right. Everything will start to look expanded. Unfortunately, the kind of late-stage surgery…
  • Re: This Just In: Linotype Master Drawings

    One thing that some folks here might be interested to note: the British L&M (Linotype & Machinery) drawings are likely to vary subtly from corresponding drawings by the American MLCo (Mergent…
  • Re: Units per em

    I assume that the winAscent = 975 is because you have Vietnamese glyphs, or some other extreme glyphs, that require lots of head room to prevent clipping. But because this is disproportionate — i.e.,…
  • Re: Any app that support OpenType "rand" feature?

    To support a {rand} feature in a page layout app, something more than just the font and text engine would be required. A routine needs to be included to generate random numbers, then use that result …
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