Kent Lew · Type Designer

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  • 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…
  • Re: Scrunch!

    I do sometimes miss the tools and process also. Although I haven’t done much graphic design in quite a while, when I do/did, I still like to create concepts and rough comps by hand. Partly to maintai…
  • Re: Scrunch!

    The spoonbill covered a range, sort of in-between. It was more all-purpose, in my experience. Used in one orientation, you got a moderately broad surface; turned over, you could use the tip for more …
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