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silnrsi / font-gentium

Fonts for languages and writing systems that use Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts
https://software.sil.org/gentium/
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Improper "VA" kerning (small caps) #32

Open gdonval opened 7 months ago

gdonval commented 7 months ago

v6.200

Example (typeset with Lualatex), smallcaps on the left, caps on the right:

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I'd argue that in both forms ON could be a bit closer and even in all caps, AV is still a bit far but in small caps AV kerning looks plain non-existent.

This looks much better (tiny ON adjustment, moderate AV adjustment in all-caps, big AV adjustment in small caps):

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jvgaultney commented 7 months ago

Thanks - we are in the midst of a major update and expansion of kerning for the next release, which will tighten up some of the capital kerning and support small caps.

jvgaultney commented 7 months ago

We won't be changing the ON spacing, as that's rather fundamental to the overall spacing. Here's a preview of v7, with slightly tightened VA:

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That may not look like enough at large sizes (it's not), but at text sizes it seems to be enough.

gdonval commented 7 months ago

No worries for ON, it's nowhere near as distracting as the missing kerning in-between VA (which is why the title only mentions VA). Are small-caps also covered by those changes?

jvgaultney commented 7 months ago

Yes - the small caps will inherit the same relative kerning as the caps.