Type design & font production. Designer of Whitman, Haffner, and Clarimo type families. Has worked with Font Bureau, Carter & Cone, and Morisawa.
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Last Notes npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…qecv @nprofile…4neu @nprofile…c56z @nprofile…w44f So glad to be able to see this talk online, Stewf. I was bummed not to be able to make over to Boston when you were out here. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…j074 Bon voyage! npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…j074 Cute. But what about “Ligatures On/Off”? 🫤 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…edye 😿 Hope all works/ed out. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…8clk Wow, that is interesting. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…j074 Nice add! I knew about this piece, but never knew the references in the title until I saw that introduction. TIL. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…8clk Looks kinda like Welsh transliterated into Devanāgarī. 😆 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…8clk How would one even go about trying to pronounce that!? 😶 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…j074 Somebody has been hoarding those stamps for quite a while! Pretty special that they decided to finally use them on a package to you. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…edye FWIW, I have an alt like that in a WIP sans-serif, which I have named *I.legible*. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…wguy Hey, I just started getting Mastodon notifications on the iPad again. Didn’t update either the app or system. Maybe some server setting changed, then got fixed? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…z59l Happy sette pesci! npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…l8pm No offense to any of the namechecked foundries, but ... 🥱 😴 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…y9zx @nprofile…24as Interesting that you all characterize that one title container as “goblet shaped”. My first impression was of a stylized lyre, which I certainly associate more with poetry. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…t9uc @nprofile…kd8c https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…ukmn @nprofile…auj3 I don’t think U+1D1A is supported in SF. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…feqs Yup. Stopped a few weeks back (or maybe more like a month or so?). Annoying. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…wgw9 I only have the one you have. But I think this one you’re looking for is later, not earlier. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…ukmn Its only real purpose. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…l8pm Because of the nuisance? Or are you concerned about compiled size/structure? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…ukmn Bravo, John! Great stuff, all. (Especially thrilled to see Sitka commercially available.) npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew Back home now and worn out, but glad to have made the trek across the state to see Matthew’s talk at @nprofile…yakj last night. Also got to catch up with some folks from the good ol’ FB days. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…jlpt I learned it as “Sell the sizzle, not the steak.” Meaning: promote the benefits to the customer, not the features. Predates Mad Men, though everyone from that era would probably have known it and sworn by it. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…ryax Look what I dug out to show you! 😆 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…pqf8 @nprofile…qx50 That’s a whole different meaning for “screen” font. 😆 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…ryax The snowflake was a Zapf dingbat. The summer leaf was from Monotype’s Arabesque Ornaments (a digization of various classic fleurons and borders). npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…y2ut @nprofile…2gn5 Thanks! I was lucky to have support and budget to commission all the illustrations. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew The recent launch of an online version of D. B. Updike’s *Printing Types* by @nprofile…2gn5 with its apt and totally excellent use of Linotype Monticello, got me reminiscing about a favorite book that I designed back in 2004 also using Monticello (but licensed directly from Carter & Cone): npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…98sm 😡😔 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew My siblings and I practically wore out our mother’s Tom Lehrer albums growing up. I bet my sister still has the sheet music in her piano bench. (And I wouldn’t be surprised if my brother could still play many from memory!) npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…98sm @nprofile…yakj Nice! 😍 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…ryax @nprofile…qx50 Although in a lot of modern printing the problem is less of a problem anymore. Only really with thin inks at fast speeds on cheap paper, right? Or am I oversimplifying? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…cu2p @nprofile…8e4c I tend to agree. Not sure Matthew would appreciate it. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew Every weekend when I get an email from @nprofile…yakj, I wish I was made of money. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 @nprofile…lfwc I could probably get you from that D-shape Firewire to Thunderbolt. But I don’t suppose that would get you any closer to where you need to get. Especially if PC. 🤷♂️ npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 [I would give X the wider lowline. Current one definitely looks odd in this Haida context, more like macron.] npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 Hmm, in CS6 the WRC does not produce those wide gaps. (Which is why I said what I said about "works as intended".) npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 FWIW, I can confirm this is an old bug, as I am reproducing it in Indd CS6 v8.0.2 (ca. 2014). npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 🤦♂️ npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 Yeah, not likely Adobe will be highly motivated to fix. But, again, in the interest of public documentation, perhaps worth filing? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…98sm @nprofile…yakj Fred was gonna be my next guess. Did he draw that large? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 Or save as text and use a proper text search. 😝 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 if you click the three dots next to the search field and check "Whole words" does that help at all? (Just a stab, without trying.) npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…zu0l @nprofile…cu2p In which case, by "scarce" they must mean ominpresent. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 @nprofile…jlpt For me it’s a meditation on points along the spectrum between influence and plagiarism, which has its fuzzy realm in the middle. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 @nprofile…jlpt To clarify, I was not referring to performances, but to compositions. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…jlpt @nprofile…mjt5 Similarly, I’ve often reflected on the classical music tradition of “variations on a theme by X” — Beethoven’s (and many others’) variations on Là ci darem la mano. Or Rachmaninoff’s variations on Paganini. Or Brahms’ variations on a theme “by Haydn”, which had itself been borrowed from an older chorale. Et alia. Plenty of gray area, not always black & white. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…qx50 @nprofile…jzgx @nprofile…qn6k So supportive! ☺️ npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…qx50 @nprofile…y3n4 Like a real-life B. Kliban qat drawing. 🙃 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…jzgx @nprofile…esq4 Glad to help. In my case, it was easy to rule out font & code because I was reading in several text files and some runs featured ligs while others did not. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew *DrawBot bug alert*: npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…lmuj Haven’t bothered to add up my TIME subscription over the past ten years and compare to the original license. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…qx50 oneþird? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…4u37 @nprofile…ryax @nprofile…zu0l I used these graphic screen effects a fair bit when I was a young designer, too — but analog! 😆 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…98sm @nprofile…qx50 https://silicon.stanford.edu/atypi/ npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…qx50 Safe to travel to Stanford, at least? I really hope so. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…ryax And will probably increase for many of us in the coming weeks if the dollar falls some more … npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 Indeed. 😝 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 Similarly, I always respected Kit Hinrichs’s limited palette at Pentagram. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 @nprofile…yakj @nprofile…6lh3 Indeed! npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew Some mouth-watering production flats by Michael Harvey for several book jackets now being offered by @nprofile…yakj npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…unvw Hey, is that closeup from one of the fitting proofs using the Peronnik story? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…0ffe @nprofile…y3n4 🤨 🙄 😔 npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…36n0 Pure coincidence; been that way for a long time. Some collateral materials as well. I remember noticing a decade or so ago when I first started monitoring my SSA record more closely. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…c7yt @nprofile…mjt5 Interpreting U+0332 more literally is how I’ve been approaching it in my WIP thus far. Looks a little ungainly on narrow letters, but from what I can tell at FirstVoices, the only such common occurrence is l̲ in St̓át̓imcets languages? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 I did then go on to read about your various approaches to handling these combining lowlines. And of course I double-checked the source to confirm that all thicknesses and alignments are equal of course. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 I’m curious about this rendering of the double combining lowlines in the d̲z̲ combination. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…qx50 @nprofile…fayr I agree with Erik. To me, Blond suggests something just slightly lighter than Regular, but not lighter enough to be Light. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew More from my WAD/Lino files: npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew Following up on my toots from yesterday: Here are the two Linotype working drawings for 10pt & 11pt Caledonia “n” colorized and superimposed on one another (and flipped to be right-reading), showing the optical adjustments that were made as a matter of course. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew I thought I'd share some material from my Dwiggins/Linotype files. Here are two different working drawings for a Caledonia “n” : 10pt and 11pt masters. All drawings were made to a standard 10" height and marked up with target dimensions in fractions of an inch to five decimal places (100,000ths of an inch). npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…qx50 The nice thing about sixes is how readily the 60° angles create alignments and symmetrical lattice that underscores the Fediverse symbolism. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…qx50 Hmm. I was going to advocate for hexasterisks for an asterism because of the threefold nature of the geometry, but I can see that pentasterisks might create some interesting relationships. npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…jlpt Looks like a quick takedown, anyway. Wonder if you could still seek damages? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…6lh3 Is that character in top red diamond of the opening still upside down on purpose? npub13myr7g8lyewemw6utrskypxr5ehz8g26agl7ejvlmdsfa8yne6jq4uwt2w Kent Lew @nprofile…mjt5 Better than DuckDuckGo or just different?
