Kerning Underscore
Wei Huang
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The only hard rule I know is to set them flush by default, because there’s a specific Microsoft guideline that says they should. Otherwise, I do kern them.2
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Not kerning the underscore is just low.1
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I space mine to match the en and then don’t kern it in case someone is using it like a bullet.0
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V_j
That is all.0 -
The reason to have them flush—or better, just slightly overlapping—is that people sometimes set rows of underscores as a quick "blank"... actually really common usage. Even by pro designers.3
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Of course you could have it not flush... and use kerning for that. :-) Especially if doing so reduces kerning work with all the other glyphs. I do that with the em-dash, and even the tilde (makes a nice wavy line).
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Oh, now I want to kern all my tildes. Wavy line is great.2
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So why not make an alternate for the hyphen. Use the tilde outline and set it to overlap? Then add it into an aalt, stylistic set, etc.Beau Williamson said:Oh, now I want to kern all my tildes. Wavy line is great.0
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