Erwin Denissen wrote:I think flipping text to focus on kerning is nice enhancement...
Personally, I think it is an unnecessary complication. RTL, yes, but upside down?
Its been years since I actually took a font from design to completion. I do get hired to work on others' fonts for specific tasks, kerning one of them. I have tried the upside down thing using other means (PagePlus using a temp activated version of the font)...and I don't believe it is of any real-world benefit.
While not exactly like the example shown by the article, if the whole exercise is so the brain, which can have difficulty in overlooking small errors due to familiarity of word shapes, is to basically make it unreadable, use a layout application in conjunction with FC. Or just use some text blocks with known kerning pairs in nonsensical words using the same layout application (and make sure to do so at various text sizes...). Especially at smaller sizes, all this does is give one a headache if you spend much time on kerning.
Mike
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