Kerning

[vv-monsalve]

Please give kerning an overall revision and ensure the most common cases are covered. E.g. Yo Po LY LT among others

[vv-monsalve]

Playwrite Austria

[vv-monsalve]

@josescaglione, the following are the main findings after reviewing the basic kerning pairs for the 20 Countries of the Batch 1 to be published.

Please review the following:

• [ ] “ and some capital letters e.g. V, T
• [ ] ¿ and some capital letters e.g. W, U, H, T
• [ ] LT in print Capitals
• [ ] space and some capitals like J K
• [ ] ‘ and lowercase letters, e.g. a
• [ ] punctuation and double quotes. E.g. . and ”
• [ ] lowercase letters and apostrophe. E.g. o’ n’ m’
• [ ] Capital letters like T, W, V, Y with lowercase letters like o, y

You can see all the Batch-1 fonts images here: Playwrite-Batch1-kerning-rev-cc1f569-mid-res-jpg.zip . Find below som examples

Playwrite Indonesia

Playwrite Mexico

Playwrite Vietnam

[josescaglione]

NOTE ABOUT KERNING

This font contains a very large number of alternate shapes for each letter. As a result, it was decided to build compound glyphs on the fly. The process was very successful as it maintained the amount of characters manageable but a downside of this decision is the inability of adding kerning exceptions, at least in the current stage of development.

Kerning pairs were added in such a way that they avoid clashing of certain accented characters. Example below:

[vv-monsalve]

Closing this issue with the above note.

[vv-monsalve]

When the latest fonts on the lang-build at commit bf2de62 are compared with the previous ones at commit cc1f569, there are no visible kern changes.

[vv-monsalve]

I'll collect the reports we receive here so they can be revised on further font versions.

Playwrite PL PR

[josescaglione]

Kerning "Ty"

Was able to check and correct all models except those that use y.cnt and a non connecting T. In those cases the pair is unnecessary: AR BR CA CO DE_GRUND HR HR_LIJEVA SK TZ US_MOD

[josescaglione]

Kerning "@n"

added positive kerning between at and .cnt glyphs

Checked all models. This changes affects: AR AU_QLD AU_VIC BE_VLG BE_WAL BR CA CL CO CU CZ DE_LA DE_SAS ES ES_DECO FR_TRAD ID IN IT_TRAD MX NL PE PL PT RO SK TZ US_MOD US_TRAD

[josescaglione]

kerning pairs ".r" ".e"

Added positive kerning between period and r.ful and e.ful to avoid a collision. Checked ALL models. This affects all pairs with an entry stroke on baseline grouped in e.ful and r.ful

[josescaglione]

Fix kerning C- Glyphs with entry stroke on baseline

Added positive kerning to pairs with r.ful and e.ful and related groups. This issue affects a few models that contain print capitals in combination with full cursive lower cases. For example ES, IN and ZA