Kent Lew


When I did the production on an updated Miller Text family for Matthew Carter and Font Bureau back in 2015, we combined three different figure styles that had been drawn over the years — ori… (View Post)

As John implied, the alternative discretionary ligatures will need to be made accessible through a combination of features — i.e., to get an alternative discretionary ligature, both {dlig} and {ss##}… (View Post)

Yes, {aalt} accepts type 3 one-from-many, since they resolve to one-to-one mapping. In fact, the results of parsing {aalt} really end up as a type 3 lookup (conceptually, anyway, if not as code) sinc… (View Post)

Revisiting this topic: I was thinking about cap-tonos suppression again, and noting all of the different complex attempts to anticipate contexts, especially for single-word cap-tonos situations. In B… (View Post)

This quote mark, which you view as a closing mark from the German perspective, is considered an opening quotation in English usage. There is precedent for such “mirrored” quotes in several 20th centu… (View Post)