Exclude lowercase-lowercase pairs from Autokern
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 9:12 pm
Having just updated my tutorial on Kerning Classes for FontCreator 10.1, I remembered that the Autokern feature is flawed, and really needs some improvements.
There is already an option not to exclude lowercase-Uppercase pairs like oT, which I think no one ever uses, except perhaps graphic designers who would do it manually anyway to create a logo.
Another option is needed to exclude lowercase-lowercase pairs.
Ideally, I think this feature should use a kerning text file, like FontCreator used to in earlier versions. Designing the kerning pairs text file to suit all languages that use Latin scripts would be difficult, but there are surely some OpenSource files that could be used.
I think Autokern does not cater for Cyrillic or Greek, let alone other scripts, but text files could do this more easily than the Autokern algorithm.
There is already an option not to exclude lowercase-Uppercase pairs like oT, which I think no one ever uses, except perhaps graphic designers who would do it manually anyway to create a logo.
Another option is needed to exclude lowercase-lowercase pairs.
Ideally, I think this feature should use a kerning text file, like FontCreator used to in earlier versions. Designing the kerning pairs text file to suit all languages that use Latin scripts would be difficult, but there are surely some OpenSource files that could be used.
I think Autokern does not cater for Cyrillic or Greek, let alone other scripts, but text files could do this more easily than the Autokern algorithm.