Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Fractions

    John may recall that back in 2014, while he was working on Nutso using GPOS, I had also developed a proof-of-concept with GSUB only, because GPOS support outside of {kern} was spotty in environments …
  • Re: Positioning of sups, subs, ordn and sinf

    Not really, or at least not in any substantial way, I don’t think. As my second illustration shows, I consider either the superior-aligned letters or the numerator-aligned letters to be suitable for …
  • Re: Positioning of sups, subs, ordn and sinf

    Here is a representation of my practice in aligning these. It is not deterministic — i.e., none of these is at any prescribed numerical percentage of any of the vertical metrics. It is dependent upon…
  • Re: Outdated glyphs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…
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