Kent Lew · Type Designer

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Admin James Puckett
  • Re: Bold spacing and kerning rules

    I don’t necessarily agree with this. Depending upon the relationship between styles, I have found that I can often start from previous kerning. If I am methodical and consistent in my development of …
  • Re: Does that “y” exist?

    This was a driving principle behind the Standard Lining (aka Point-Line) system that was being adopted by founders in the U.S. in the 1890s and elsewhere in the first decade of the 1900s, not unique …
  • Re: Launch Timing

    Or December.
  • 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…
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