Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Florin sign (ƒ)

    Although f-stop can be correctly indicated with just an italic f, the fact of the matter is that very frequently in the digital age the florin/hooked-f ƒ is now used. Pretty much ever since the Mac k…
  • Re: Units per em

    Linotype matrices were specified to .001" increments (with machining tolerances of half that) — which is much finer than a quarter of a point, and effectively no unitization at all. Unlike the M…
  • Re: “French” apostrophe?

    In Slovak, that is not an apostrophe! (Despite how it may perhaps be input sometimes in some “dumb” environments.) It is an accented letter: Ľ. So, yes, it is thought of as part of a single letter.
  • Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar

    Nina — As I said, I only double-encode U+00AD in case there is a validation tool that needs the codepoint in order to permit indication of certain codepage coverages. I suspect, as John does, that it…
  • Re: Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar

    My preferred approach to U+00AD softhyphen is the same as U+00A0 nbspace — which is to say, I prefer to double-encode them with their default references hyphen and space. These two are unique charact…
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