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Kerning between V/W and lower case letters is a bit too wide, isn't it? Here's a comparison. #179

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dawidd4 opened this issue May 25, 2023 · 5 comments

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dawidd4 commented May 25, 2023

Junicode 2 Beta Light Condensed 1 057

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psb1558 commented May 25, 2023

That looks bad. I'll fix it.

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dawidd4 commented May 26, 2023

I'm thinking that some Upper Case letters could be also more condensed in the condensed font style. Comparing to other condensed font families the glyph spacing is a little bit too wide.
Instrument Serif is also for free, but the condensed style is the default one. But the characteristic of this font lies in its long tails of the letters "R" "a", etc. It has one of the most condensed W's.

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psb1558 commented Jun 2, 2023

The kerning is fixed. I'll think about the widths of condensed caps.

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dawidd4 commented Jun 14, 2023

I must apologize. It's MS Paint that creates the unusual letter spacing. Glyphs there start always at the same pixels: Instrument/instrument-serif#4
But yes. The distance between"Wà", "Wą" was previously shorter then between "Wa" I think.
(Or was this one issue related to Junicode 1 ... ?)

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psb1558 commented Jun 14, 2023

Actually, there was a problem with kerning of sequences like VA, WA, TA, Wa, Va, Ta. That's fixed now, with suitable exceptions for vowels with accents.

But I'm not surprised that MS Paint does its spacing oddly. It has been around since Windows 1.0 in 1985. I imagine it has done its own rasterizing from the beginning--and Microsoft is notorious for hanging onto extremely ancient code in its Windows apps and Office suite.

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