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‘Smart kerning’ is brilliant, and the fact this looks like a more normal Source Code Pro is winning me over as well.
by fwlr 3y ago
‘Smart kerning’ is brilliant, and the fact this looks like a more normal Source Code Pro is winning me over as well.
- AlanYx 3y agoI'm really intrigued by the smart kerning idea. Are there any other monospace fonts that do this?
- cantSpellSober 3y agoIs there a term for "smart kerning" this that digital typographers use? Is it a feature of OpenType? Is it similar to/controlled be the font-kerning property in CSS?
- kroltan 3y ago> Smart kerning works by looking at single letter between two other letters. If the other letters are in different width classes, the middle letter will slide closer to the narrow letter. From this paragraph it sounds like they're using ligatures, which are rules of "when this character sequence appears, use this glyph instead." But A) I'm no OTF expert, and B) I haven't dissected the font files.
- __jonas 3y agoThe font files with smart kerning don't contain any ligatures. It seems they are using glyph substitution tables but I also didn't look in too much detail