Aren't you always manually checking to see if your kerning is good? Whether that kerning is automated or not. I would assume that it's the stage before that, the bulk of the kerning work, that is spe… (View Post)
As a cognitive psychologist, I would like to argue that we actually have pretty good ways of measuring such things. We could quite feasibly compare two typefaces and their emotional response… (View Post)
In some cases you could also consider scientific (peer-reviewed) publication, such as this: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/idj.23.1.09che (View Post)
If you're beginning I'd say Glyphs is a lot more intuitive than Fontlab. They have a pretty clear manual (also explaining basics like sidebearings) and a lot of tutorials on the website. To start, yo… (View Post)