Introducing my Automatic Kerning and Automatic Slanted Curve Correction Services

MattBurvill

Hi everyone, my name's Matt Burvill and I would like to let you all know about my Automatic Kerning and Automatic Slanted Curve Correction services, 'Kernetal' and 'Lettersital' respectively.

Examples and more in-depth information can be found here:
https://tools.lettersetal.co.uk

I have been involved in type for almost 20 years, and have over a decade of professional experience including 8 years at Dalton Maag where I eventually held a senior font developer position.
I now run my foundry projects Lettersetal.co.uk and Experim-etal.lettersetal.co.uk

I use both of these tools for my own work, so if you check the fonts on Lettersetal you can see the results of my automatic kerning process and my automatic slanting corrections. In both cases with very little to no extra work required.

I am pleased with the results and proud of the work that went into making these, and I'm hoping to make them available to you to streamline these tasks.

Both services are collaborative and parametric. This means we will discuss your project and I will send initial results applied to a test glyph set. From there we can tweak the parameters to get the results you desire before applying to the full glyph set. I know from experience that there's no one-size-fits-all approach to kerning or slanting, so I have made the tools as flexible as possible and am able to include you in that process.

I hope this is of interest, and I'd love to hear from you if you think I can help with a project. There's contact buttons on the website that will direct your enquiries to the right place.

Thanks for reading,
Matt

John Hudson

Interesting and promising.

Do you have any examples of Lettersital applied to higher contrast type styles?

Have you tried Lettersital on any scripts other than Latin?

MattBurvill

Hi John, thank you for your interest and for the prompt to add a high contrast example.
I happen to have an upright high contrast concept in the works and I have applied Lettersital to it.
I have updated the document with the examples (Pages 23-25).
This is 'raw' output, so for context, if this was your design this is the kind of level we're at without further collaborative tuning of the parameters.

As regards non-latins, I have tried it and whilst I can't show you the results (not my design to show) I can say the process is shape-agnostic, meaning it doesn't need to 'know' anything about scripts or fonts beyond the bezier curves themselves. 

I hope that helps, please take a look at the updated document at https://tools.lettersetal.co.uk/ (use arrow keys to skip the pages quickly) and feel free to drop me a line if there's something specific you'd like me to look at

Thanks!