Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Announcing Font Tech & AI online conference

    I was not able to make very many of the sessions live, due to other priorities. But, as I anticipated, @"Simon Cozens"’s talk was worth the price of admission all on its own. I am always en…
  • Re: Positioning of sups, subs, ordn and sinf

    Here is a representation of my practice in aligning these. It is not deterministic — i.e., none of these is at any prescribed numerical percentage of any of the vertical metrics. It is dependent upon…
  • Re: About spaces

    John did not answer this specific question. I’ll take a guess for him. I suspect he chose 63 as it represents 1/16 of an em, continuing the logic of other regular divisions.My practice generally mirr…
  • Re: Outdated glyphs

    I tend to include all of those, with the exception of the softhyphen, the handling of which I now consider the responsibility of the layout environment. I agree that the jacute can be handled entirel…
  • Re: Glyphs thickness

    The bowl of /D looks fairly balanced with the stem. I would aim to get /O, /C, /G, /Q looking similarly weighted. (Which might or might not be a matter of the same actual measure.)
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