nonlinear kerning in VF

Rafał Buchner Posts: 16

February 2019 in Font Technology

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?

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• #varablefonts #kerning

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  Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,135

  February 2019

  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.

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  Belleve Invis Posts: 269

  February 2019

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

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  AzizMostafa AzizAli Posts: 106

  February 2019 edited February 2019

  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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itZ66gUVVCI

  Happy watching & exploring!

  
  
  
  
  

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  AzizMostafa AzizAli Posts: 106

  March 2019

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

  
  

  
  
  

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