Polish letter "ł" kerning too tight?

[tszynalski]

I took it for a spin and it looks like the keming is weird in the word "żółty" (yellow). To my eye, the letter "ł" is too close to neighboring letters, especially compared to the distance between "ż" and "ó".

[erikdkennedy]

Thanks! Can you post an image of a word with ł better kerned? Or recommend a font that does a good job with it? I will investigate 🙂

[tszynalski]

I think Lato does it better (maybe because it was made by a Pole). Open Sans seems to have a similar issue.

[erikdkennedy]

Hm, many fonts keep that letter pretty tight. Nonetheless, I did add some space. My goal is to keep the general feel of whitespace between glyphs equal. For those that that have a "pointy" part of the character (such as ł), the glyph will get closer to neighboring characters. Does this read a bit better though?

[tszynalski]

Looks better, but I think part of the issue is the distance between ż and ó. Don't you feel that ż feels separated from the rest of the word?