Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Em Alignments and Vertical Space?

    The practice of maintaining a consistent baseline grid across columns, pages, etc. is actually relatively recent, I believe. Or at least the “rule” that it is somehow wrong not to. In printing of the…
  • Re: CSS font-feature-settings and .fina/.end

    You have to approach it from the other way around: You do an ignore sub for whenever a following character does not signal a word termination, and then you put in a simple overall sub for the ending …
  • Re: Imperial vs Gazette

    Over the years, I have periodically sought more information about Edwin Schaar, asking folks like Tobias Frere-Jones and Frank Romano. But so far, I haven’t really turned up much about the man and hi…
  • Re: Extend language support?

    The i.dot (also sometimes i.trk) approach is a strategy for simplifying the interception of fi ligation and i -> idotaccent.smcp mapping for Turkish and related languages that distinguish between …
  • Re: Robofab Installation MacOS 10.11.3

    This works superficially; but there are certain point types that translate differently, so one has to beware. A point that has only one handle — for example, the vertex in the notch of an n, where th…
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