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Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals
From: |
Robert Clark |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:28:06 +0000 |
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 16:23 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I don't know if you think it's worth bothering with but, at some
> > higher sizes like 20ppem, the "Re" kerning is around -0.9 and is
> > being rounded to 0. At that size, the glyph shapes are much closer
> > to the scalable outlines and I think the kerning does improve the
> > layout. How about rounding the kerning to 0 if it lies in the -0.75
> > -> 0.75 pixel range?
>
> [No patch attached, BTW.]
My bad. It was pretty trivial, anyway.
> I've thought about this too: The smaller the ppem, the `stricter' the
> rounding must be. For 10ppem even your proposed [-0.75,0.75] range
> might easily introduce bad kerning,
It does - "Fi" is quite cramped.
> so I'm staying on the extremely conservative side. What I can imagine
> is to make the rounding dependent on the ppem value -- can you do some
> testing?
I think this is going to get to the point where I want to redo the
kerning by hand for every font for each ppem, but I can't resist playing
with it. I'll see what I can come up with over the weekend.
Robert
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, (continued)
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/12/04
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Robert Clark, 2004/12/06
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Robert Clark, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/12/07
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Robert Clark, 2004/12/08
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/12/08
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/12/09
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Robert Clark, 2004/12/10
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/12/10
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals,
Robert Clark <=
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Antoine, 2004/12/09
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Antoine Leca, 2004/12/10
- Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Werner LEMBERG, 2004/12/11
RE: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, David Piepgrass, 2004/12/07
Re: [Devel] Kerning problem with capitals, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2004/12/08