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Autospacing Action Vs Manual Kerning
Ok I'm not thinking on using autospacing instead of manual kerning ;) I just want to know what happend if I do an autospacing to my whole font if I did manual kerning (OTF) The autospacing will affect my manual kerning? Or are they 2 separate things in the font?
Thanks in advance!
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6 Apr 2009 — 6:53pm
Spacing and kerning are two different things. Spacing is modifying the sidebearings on each separate letter. Kerning is modifying space between a letter pair. Fontlabs autospacing doesn't seem to be very good, btw.
6 Apr 2009 — 7:33pm
Cool, thanks!
6 Apr 2009 — 7:35pm
Sorry, can you tell me why is not good?
6 Apr 2009 — 7:59pm
Auto-kerning makes a big mess. Just do class kerning and manually kern key glyphs.
ChrisL
7 Apr 2009 — 1:33am
Both these function are bad because you loose all control of the result.
If you want to save time, use class kerning and class metrics instead.