kerning
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- Laurent0
k earning
- ********0
what are the key letters with problems?
1, V.. what else? Y?
- Nairn0
a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y and z depending on context and neighbourhood.
- moamoa0
- *gulps*Nairn
- wtf!! explain please********
- < this tablemoamoa
- ah ok... but I dont understand it... and this is something only for vllg fonts???!********
- kts a standard kerning for open type fonts. you can´t really follow this rulemoamoa
- but you get a feeling which lettercombinations you have to kern.. mostlymoamoa
- yeah, i studied it for about 10 minutes and now i start to understand this can be a good reference..janne76
- kts?********
- Ah, its! :P********
- janne760
I kern all my webtext!! All the pages, all the docs!
I KERN THEM ALL MANUALLY!
BECAUSE I AM THE KERNING KING, INNIT!
- wtf!!!********
- people goes NUTS when KERNING IS THE TOPIC! WWWW O O O O O OO O O WWW!********
- wtf!!!
- ********0
The magical dummy kern!
- moamoa0
example:
pos @_kern_1uc_W @_kern_3sc_a -50;
Wapos @_kern_1uc_W @_kern_3sc_b -20;
Wbthe "a" needs to be closer to the W, if you would have in this case the same kernoption like Wb... you´ll have a small hole, and the "b" because of this length and the line on the left side would cross the W if the same kern option then Wa.
damn my english is to bad to explain that :)
- ********0
C´mon gramme! go for it!
- hallelujah0
come on, man, how can I churn out the shit and make my money that way?
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http://www.dict.cc/?…
moamoa - Like making butter, only not.Nairn
- ahhhh thanks... there was to many opportunities for this word :)moamoa
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- gramme0
It varies from one typeface to the next. Some type designers build in very good kerning; others, judging by the consistency of kerning pairs, left the job to a cross-eyed child.
I *almost* never kern paragraphs in a long text. I always kern headlines. I use metric kerning (default) for paragraphs unless the built-in kerning is shite. Is that what you're wondering, Marcelom? When to kern? I only breezed through this thread.
- gramme0
Like moamoa says, the solution depends on the typeface. Even though more often than not I will manually kern headlines, I find that certain typefaces, some from H&FJ in particular, pretty much kern themselves. Not for a pristine tightness and flow one expects in a logo mind you, but damn good enough for any headline. Mercury in particular has been a dream to work with for my church, I always use metric kerning and call it a day 9/10 times.
- gramme0
moamoa, how exactly do you do a find/replace for kerning throughout a document? I know how to find/replace text info, just wondering if there's a global way to consistently tweak kerning pairs...
- I think just find/replace********
- Nah, would have to enter some kerning message rather than text parametergramme
- I think just find/replace
