This is just masochistic. Why would you even try to encode a striped background into a font? And then make kerning work? I don't even know what to say. "The ha

This is just masochistic. Why would you even try to encode a striped background into a font? And then make kerning work? I don't even know what to say. "The hard way" indeed... Backgrounds are backgrounds, fonts are fonts, and never the twain should meet...