Kerning for slashes

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When writing a URL (e.g. http://www.google.com) with the Heuristica font the 
kerning of the slashes ("/" characters) doesn't look right. I think they should 
be quite a bit closer together. 
This also applies to the backslash ("\" character). You can see example 
screenshots in the attachment.

It would be nice if you could fix this in a future version. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by thomas.m...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2013 at 6:07

Attachments:

• heuristica_backslash_kerning.png
• heuristica_slash_kerning.png

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Utopia, the original font, was designed in 1980s and has not kerning for these 
pairs.

Original comment by andrej.panov on 19 Sep 2013 at 11:36

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Hello Andrej,

Thanks for the quick response and the explanation. Would still be nice if you 
could change this in the future.

Thomas

Original comment by thomas.m...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2013 at 5:57

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The attached patch (against the Heuristica 1.0.2 sfd sources) fixes the issue. 
In addition, it provides, as stylistic set 1, longer slash and backslash 
glyphs, which match the parentheses in height and depth.

Andreas Nolda 

Original comment by nolda.an...@googlemail.com on 29 Nov 2014 at 7:19

Attachments:

• slash.patch

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This will break the metric compatibility with the Utopia font.

Original comment by andrej.panov on 1 Dec 2014 at 1:12