Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Most common kern pairs

    I once toyed with the idea of using different lookup types to create a “cascading” kern feature, where accents might be handled as additive kern adjustments instead of enumerated exceptions. Somethin…
  • Re: Most common kern pairs

    Indeed. Before the recent rise of the far-right in Germany, I would not have thought I needed to consider the “fD” combination. I definitely took notice when the following showed up in my mailbox in …
  • Re: Most common kern pairs

    Ramiro — I don’t know what value these lists will actually have, from a practical standpoint; but I went ahead and ran an analysis last night. As mentioned, my master word list was compiled from An C…
  • Re: Most common kern pairs

    Ramiro — A couple years ago, I spent a few days compiling a massive word list from several Latin-using languages, using the corpora at the An Crúbadán project, and then writing a script to extract th…
  • Re: Reason for separating Latin and Cyrillic kerning groups?

    From a development standpoint, there is obviously an advantage to having the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek “cognates" in combined classes. As Thomas explains, there are production advantages to hav…
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