you can fix this with more generous vertical (hhea, typo, win) metrics. setting the line gap to 0 and relying on those metrics instead will get you more consistency across apps, google fonts has pret… (View Post)
no need for AI per se, I think underware foundry claimed to have done this (in a lecture on their HOI tour) a few years ago, though I'm not sure they truly meant any font. IIRC a question was posed … (View Post)
I am guessing / wondering if this is a case where kern on is too agnostic from seeing masses of dark and light rather than letters (which in many other cases is a benefit, as this helps it work acros… (View Post)
I have noticed this as well. I don't know if I've had it for V-V specifically but it does happen with relatively common pairs. I find myself taking an auto kerned pair, and dragging the slider all th… (View Post)
italic offset can be computed as x_shift = -round(tan(italic_angle * pi / 180) * (x_height * 0.5)) gunnlaugur briem's website is offline I believe but the fontlab site has backed up his method here, … (View Post)