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Typically the Q will have many more collisions on its right, for example in the pair ‘Qp’. when the Q and the O share the same right group.
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Occasionally you will also have glyph-to-group situations, e.g. So, group-to-glyph kerning happens often. Uppercase letter with lowercase diacritic is the most frequent scenario for exceptions in Latin. Just the odieresis has an individual exception. And in this example, I think the space between N and D is pretty much alright already:Īll the other letters in the o group remain group-kerned.
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(Actually, the latter is spelled ‘vând’ with a circumflex, or so I have been told by a trusted source.) I recommend you do not merely type the combination that needs adjusting, but also add some context, a few letters where the whitespace seems alright already. This becomes apparent when you type a word like ‘VAND’, which, I believe, means ‘water’ in Danish and ‘sell’ in Romanian and Moldovan. Okay, so you have optimized the sidebearings of your V and your A, but there is still too much whitespace in between them. Adjusting the left and right sidebearings of a single letter is called spacing. This is important: keep in mind that the term kerning means adjusting the whitespace enclosed by a combination of two letters, a glyph pair. when a capital V is followed by a capital A. One of the usual suspects is the combination ‘VA’, i.e. This is when you have reached the point at which you will not get around without kerning. But you’ll notice that, no matter how well you do it, some letter combinations never really work out properly. Try to get as far as possible with properly spacing your glyphs. Kerning is usually something you do very late in the fontmaking process.