Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • 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: Coolangatta

    Generally, cap height is maintained across weights, even as xheight may increase to accommodate weight gain. (Any difference in cap height should certainly be less noticeable than your current deviat…
  • 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: Tesserae — an experiment in modular variable fonts

    I’ll be curious to hear what native users think of Cyrillic Лл. To my eye, they are not terribly convincing. Дд perhaps only slightly more so. I think capital Ъ probably needs to be one column wider.…
  • Re: Units per em

    Very well. I have not kept up with those latest discussions. But if you’re going to reduce lineGap to 0 and redistribute the advance into the asc/desc fields, then it seems to me you might as well ma…
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