nonlinear kerning in VF

Rafał Buchner

Is the problem illustrated in Just's tweet solved somehow?

https://twitter.com/justvanrossum/status/811481272333778944

If not: Any good tricks and tips how to solve similar issues?

Thomas Phinney

Could switch the T to an alternate glyph (with separate spacing and kerning) at the point in the design space where it starts to clash.

Belleve Invis

You can have four masters, where the middle two are very close.

AzizMostafa AzizAli

Rafał Buchner > Any good tricks and tips how to solve similar issues?

@ OpenType format wasn't designed to handle nonlinear kerning in VF. That's why we developed Qalambartar to handle not only the nonlinear kerning in Arabic script, but the overlapping and swashing too.

Happy watching & exploring!

AzizMostafa AzizAli

Just linking with https://typedrawers.com/discussion/3062/space-character-in-arabic-and-latin-fonts