Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: copy ligature's unicode

    Assuming I understand your goal, you might be better off building a specialty keyboard to input the desired end codepoints and distributing it with the fonts.
  • Re: ccmp and decomposition

    I believe that’s exactly what DJR did with his Bild variable font. There’s a brief explanation at the end of this blog post.
  • Re: Electra Oblique

    Nick —The font profiles used by Knopf in their colophons tended to be reused, not written anew each time. This Electra description is quite familiar to me.I’m sure the editor tasked with composing th…
  • Re: A little curiosity about pnum and tnum

    The two sets of glyphs are identical, but there are kerning pairs that affect the .fitted alternates (and none for the default figures). As a result, the .fitted figures that are substituted with {pn…
  • Re: <aalt> before <ccmp>

    I have had occasions where including {aalt} seems to have made a difference. If I recall correctly, if a stylistic alternate is the result of a contextual sub, then even though it may ultimately be a…
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