GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 643364
Kerning is broken for some pairs
Last modified: 2017-08-13 16:47:15 UTC
Created attachment 181990 [details] Font at size 11 Pairs that have kerning problems here divided into groups: There is something wrong with "l" and "ł", changing font size makes the letter glue to either left or right: * al * bl (size 10) * el * ld (size 11) * li (size 11) * ll * ol (size 12) * pl Misaligned "a" and "ą" (same problem?): * ae (size 11) * am * an * ap * ar (size 11) * as (size 11) * at (size 11) * az (size 11) * ea (size 12) * ka Misaligned "i": * hi (size 11) * ic * in * is (size 12) * it (size 12) * ni (size 13) * zi Misaligned "o" and "ó": * jo * ko * oc (size 11) * od * oj (size 11) * ok (size 11) * on * os (size 11) * ow (size 11) * oz (size 11) The rest: * kr * re * ze Kerning seems to differ between different point sizes quite a bit. I'll attach two screenshots to illustrate the problem.
Created attachment 181991 [details] Font at size 12
Created attachment 183939 [details] iKern'd Cantarell Regular This is the iKern'd Cantarell Regular TTF
Jimmac emailed me "I made both regular and bold more compact. Bold was extremely wide, and even regular was spaced so wide that many people considered Cantarell to be monospaced font for some reason. Hinting introduced some spacing issues at certain sizes. I addressed some, but it still needs work. Some of them will be solvable by tweaking spacing, but for a more compact type, some will need to be addressed with kerning I think"
Closing this, as 1) Cantarell has no kerning, only plain old spacing 2) spacing has been improved over the years.