Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Outdated glyphs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 nominal thickness might be the same at the widest point. But that doesn’t mean that the weight is equal in all. It may be a matter of how the two bounding curves interact. In the /D the transitio…
  • Re: Amusing YouTube Video

    For those who might not be aware (or maybe weren’t even born yet!): the “Nova” in Proxima Nova was in reference to an earlier Proxima Sans. Which some of us actually licensed in the ’90s; and which I…
  • Re: Subscripts vertical alignment

    I would expect subscripts to straddle the baseline (though not necessarily vertically centered). That is the convention I have always seen for chemical typesetting. And how I approach them in my font…
  • Re: InkTrapGenerator — Plugin for Glyphs

    We also called them “thorns”. (Those phototype compensations for light spread.)
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