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be5invis / Iosevka

Versatile typeface for code, from code.
http://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Bad kerning for 'it', 'iz', 'zi', and many other pairs in Etoile #624

Open neongreen opened 4 years ago

neongreen commented 4 years ago

I am using Iosevka Etoile Web v3.2.2 in Chrome 83.0.4103.116 on macOS Catalina.

This is how the word "initializing" looks in Iosevka:

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To my eye, it should be quite a bit tighter, and iz/zi should be a hair tighter.

Here is a complete paragraph, with many un-kerned pairs:

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Am I doing something wrong, or does Etoile intentionally omit kerning?

be5invis commented 4 years ago

All the quasi-proportionals are designed as a derivative of monospace -- so the kerning is intentionally omitted. It's like iA Writer's "proportional" fonts which don't have kerning too. Though the shape choice, balancing, and even adding kerning back could be a research area.

neongreen commented 4 years ago

Gotcha.

fee1-dead commented 2 years ago

Got this as well. For me it was the "Fo" pair.

fee1-dead commented 2 years ago

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Here's a screenshot, it is pretty bad and noticeable, so I hope this can be fixed.