A case for on-the-fly auto-kerning? The font is helpless here...
Sep 6, 2022 · 5:41 PM UTC
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@justvanrossum I guess graphic designers need to be responsible for typography at some point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@fostertype That doesn't translate to the web, though, where content is added long after the design has been signed off.
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@justvanrossum I used to think this was what Adobe’s “Auto” kerning setting was for but, alas, no.
I know the difference between the ‘Metrics’ and ‘Optical’ kerning options in Illustrator, but what’s the difference between ‘Metrics’ and ‘Auto’?
I thought Auto selectively used Optical between glyphs from separate fonts and Metrics everywhere else, but that isn’t the case.
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@justvanrossum A case for adopting Armenian punctuation which allows to indicate which word gets questionified.
“Does she gօ՞lf”
“Dօ՞es she golf”
“Does she gօ՞lf”
“Dօ՞es she golf”
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@justvanrossum TeX has had italic correction for a long time, it is amusing to see the reaction of TeX people when they discover italic correction is not a thing outside TeX, they are like how is this even possible. Also github.com/harfbuzz/harfb…
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@justvanrossum You do not like the new interrofang?
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@justvanrossum all I see is a ligature that begs to be drawn
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