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Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t optical kerning a fallback option for fonts that have no special kerning rules? When would you use it over the font designer’
by MatthiasPortzel 3y ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t optical kerning a fallback option for fonts that have no special kerning rules? When would you use it over the font designer’s hand-specified kerning?
- virtualritz 3y agoNot necessarily. See my other comment here about kerning depending on font size. A font may be kerned to be typeset at 10–16pt but you use it for headlines at 24p. The optical kerning may be better suited then.