Overlapping pair adjustments -- problem or not?
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:40 am
When you're doing your kerning, and you end up with a couple glyphs that would look best if they overlapped, is there anything wrong with that?
For example, in one of the fonts I'm working on, the uppercase "K" has a long right-hand leg that descends way down below the baseline (and off to the right a bit), and that's no problem for words like, say, "Kale," but for something like "Kyle" then I run into the issue of the the two descending parts overlapping.
Is there anything wrong with that, like, making them overlap when you're kerning two characters that would have that issue? I can do up some screenshots if you need them, but I'm sure you can probably imagine/understand what I mean.
(And pardon me if I used the wrong terminology for the parts of letters -- I presume you know what I mean in that regard, too, though.)
For example, in one of the fonts I'm working on, the uppercase "K" has a long right-hand leg that descends way down below the baseline (and off to the right a bit), and that's no problem for words like, say, "Kale," but for something like "Kyle" then I run into the issue of the the two descending parts overlapping.
Is there anything wrong with that, like, making them overlap when you're kerning two characters that would have that issue? I can do up some screenshots if you need them, but I'm sure you can probably imagine/understand what I mean.
(And pardon me if I used the wrong terminology for the parts of letters -- I presume you know what I mean in that regard, too, though.)