Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Are foundry initials an inherent part of a type family name?

    Also, in the U.S., you can become subject to the judgment of a USPTO trademark examining attorney who has to approve a registration. In 2012, when Carter & Cone and Font Bureau submitted to regis…
  • Re: TextEdit Font Menu

    MS Word is also tricky. (Word for Mac 2011, anyway.) It starts to have trouble with families that are larger than standard RIBBI. The further you get from that, the more trouble. I once tried, unsucc…
  • Re: TextEdit Font Menu

    I wouldn’t bother to try to figure out TextEdit’s menu. It’s not just your font; it does that with all fonts, even Apple system-supplied fonts. The order of styles seems somewhat nonsensical.
  • Re: Dutch IJ with dots

    There are a few fonts these days that attempt to support ij with acute. These generally feature two acutes. There are various ways to do this. See this thread: http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1294/…
  • Re: Capital Eng

    If a font does indeed provide for African languages, then I think it does makes sense to have the capital “nj” form as the default, and localize for the relevant Sami languages. But to adequately cov…
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