Ken Lunde
Font Developer at Unicode Consortium
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolKen Lunde is a distinguished font developer and standards leader based in San Jose with over three decades of deep expertise in CJK typographic and encoding issues and 11 years in senior roles at major standards bodies. He develops and maintains high-profile Pan-CJK type technologies at Apple and previously at Adobe, and he chairs and authors key Unicode and ISO documents—running the IVD and leading the CJK & Unihan Working Group. Ken combines scholarly rigor (PhD-level linguistics and Russian language training) with hands-on engineering of type systems, producing widely used open-source families like Source Han and Source Han Mono. His unusual blend of military intelligence training, linguistics, and technical stewardship gives him rare authority on ideograph provenance, vertical text, and emoji standards. He also acts as a frequent international liaison, quietly shaping cross-institutional CJK standards from behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Linguistics (major) Japanese (minor), PhD Linguistics (major) Japanese (minor) at University of Wisconsin-MadisonNone Russian language, None Russian language at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language CenterN/A High School Diploma, N/A High School Diploma at Mount Horeb High School
English, Japanese, Russian
Stackoverflow
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325reached
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Github Skills (85)
extendscript10
coretext10
font-size10
phonetics10
cjk10
text-rendering10
opentype-fonts10
opentype10
fonts10
freetype10
photoshop10
woff10
google-fonts10
font-editor10
typeface10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
adobe-type-tools/agl-specification
Mar 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 releases, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
unicode-org/cjk-symbols
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
CJK Symbols
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 2 commits in 3 years
cjkcjk-compatibilitycjk-symbolsfontkangxi-radicals
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