I decided to try Kern On with my latest typeface. After deleting all the small pairs (less than 5) and cleaning up some garbage (pairs for CALT glyphs) I still have over 7,500 pairs in each master. And the kern values are terrible for many pairs. Going through them one by one in Glyphs would probably take longer than just kerning the typeface in MetricsMachine. How are people dealing with this? Are people just crossing their fingers and hoping that Kern On did a good job?
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Define models for some of those pairs to adjust the output?
The big problem I have found with previous auto-kerning is that even when it did a good job in terms of internal consistency of output, it didn’t kern anything like the way I would have kerned manually. So I either had to accept that or throw it out and kern manually. The iterative model aspect of KO is what I like, and why I think it is the best approach. Also, Tim is very responsive to issue reports.