I assume that most designer pick fonts for their aesthetics, not for technical capabilities. Most fonts on the market are not variable, so most fonts that happen to fit the aesthetics of a project or… (View Post)
You can also try the Font Smoothing Adjuster app and setting Font smoothing to Disabled. It’s a super simple app and free to download from the web. Or, if you are comfortable with the command line, r… (View Post)
Kerning to a space cannot be used, since someone might want to kern a glyph to a space without also implying optical bounds. In the following discussion, the lfbd/rfbd features are considered almost … (View Post)
Text is split into runs before shaping, and one such run boundary is in between different scripts. Adobe’s apps do some additional processing (e.g. “optical” kerning) which also works across scripts.… (View Post)