Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Scarbo — an attempt at a text face

    @"Craig Eliason" — Hmm. You’ve made me stop and think. You’re right to challenge me, as it does seem now that perhaps I’m holding two different things in my mind at once under the single ru…
  • Re: Coding question

    P.S. So the example you posted, then, translates to “when a space glyph is preceded by any member of the @figures class and followed by any member of the @numerators class, it should be replaced by a…
  • Re: Coding question

    The single quote signifies the target in a contextual substitution (GSUB Lookup Type 5/6 or GPOS Lookup Type 7/8). cf.: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko/topic_feature_file_syntax.html#2.d
  • Re: Scarbo — an attempt at a text face

    I personally think this is a perfectly legitimate basis from which to enter the discipline. As evidenced by your other statements, I think you have the right attitude toward your influences. This is …
  • Re: Scarbo — an attempt at a text face

    FWIW, I’m not convinced that the overshoot is too great. I will say that the prominence of z in the Polish language will give a very different impression of the overshoot than English settings. The c…
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