Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • Re: Font or Font Software

    Historically, the “art work representing images of letters, numbers and other characters” was considered the “typeface” and the means of reproducing those images — i.e., the physical metal sorts, or …
  • Re: Are foundry initials an inherent part of a type family name?

    Also, in the U.S., you can become subject to the judgment of a USPTO trademark examining attorney who has to approve a registration. In 2012, when Carter & Cone and Font Bureau submitted to regis…
  • Re: TextEdit Font Menu

    MS Word is also tricky. (Word for Mac 2011, anyway.) It starts to have trouble with families that are larger than standard RIBBI. The further you get from that, the more trouble. I once tried, unsucc…
  • Re: TextEdit Font Menu

    I wouldn’t bother to try to figure out TextEdit’s menu. It’s not just your font; it does that with all fonts, even Apple system-supplied fonts. The order of styles seems somewhat nonsensical.
  • Re: Dutch IJ with dots

    There are a few fonts these days that attempt to support ij with acute. These generally feature two acutes. There are various ways to do this. See this thread: http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1294/…
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