font ID help

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  • gramme0

    Here's a question for you about kerning, Typographica:

    If a font has bad/insufficient kerning programmed into it, and I use Optical kerning, is that good enough or is the Optical kerning option just rubbish?

    When working with thoughtfully drawn and kerned typefaces, I use the default "Metrics" setting (i.e. Adobe Garamond pro, Thesis, Fedra, Gotham, etc...), although occasionally I use the optical option – fore example, I'm using Helvetica Neue UltraLight for headlines in a book at the moment, and they seem to look better with optical kerning.

    Your thoughts?

    thx.

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