Hi Tim... some time ago I started developing a tool to asist and improve the kerning process by letting you know what have you kerned and what you have not kerned.. and at the same time it lets you c… (View Post)
Remarkably little time. I recently kerned an Ethiopic font (using a test build of KO, the release version doesn’t support Ethiopic yet), and I was able to define about 100 model pairs in about half a… (View Post)
I saw you ask this on twitter first, but to expand a little: one of Kern On's strengths is that it is not super opinionated about this. Kern On's suggestions are based on pair frequency, but those pa… (View Post)
I think 'printing house' and 'bindery', rather than 'typography' and 'binding'. Not sure about the last word, but it will denote some sort of workshop. (View Post)
@"Igor Petrovic" FWIW, here's a similar kerning string generator. You can add more than two sets e.g. ABC xyz abc will produce: AxaAxbAxcAyaAybAycAzaAzbAzcA BxaBxbBxcByaBybBycBzaBzbBzcB Cxa… (View Post)
You don’t really need a shared list. You always start Kern On by defining a minimum of ten pairs that do not need any kerning, so typically HH HO OH OO etc. for Latin. Then Kern On starts suggesting … (View Post)
No, it's a Han character, and Han characters never change their rotation. It's actually the character ー, or chōonpu, that rotates. These two characters look almost indistinguishable in a Gothic/san… (View Post)
I see, that makes sense. Having a strictly left-to-right script with ascenders, descenders, and diacritics makes our ideas of a font's full vertical dimension much more unclear, which is why digital … (View Post)
If we are to take terminology from metal type, it should be called the body. Otherwise, I think there isn't a term because the idea is not particularly meaningful. The vertical metrics are not "… (View Post)