nonlinear kerning in VF
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Rafał Buchner
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Is the problem illustrated in Just's tweet solved somehow?
If not: Any good tricks and tips how to solve similar issues?
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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.2
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You can have four masters, where the middle two are very close.1
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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=itZ66gUVVCIHappy watching & exploring!
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