Typophile

The Joys of Kerning

anonymous

People of Fontos,
Can anyone recommend a good utility/ fine bit of software for extensive kerning. Currently I'm using notepad! I'm working on a font that has waaaaaaaay to many kerning pairs and I want to largely reduce that number.
Fontlab is good for this. However I still want absolute control over which pairs stay and which go. - Some how it chooses an internal list and ditches most of the a-z pairs and keeps the brackets and hyphens. Not what I need. :-(
So far, the best thing I've found is to edit the metrics by hand in notepad. But there has gotta be something easier/better than this. Or
is there?

Incidentally If anyone can point out any kerning lists, either with words - like gym, wyvern - things like that, or kerning pairs - like http://typophile.com/downloads/kerning_pairs_1.0.txt then I will be very grateful. Thank you.

Hi

I think the download is useful if you are intending to do this. Don't know much about notepad. Basically, I just use technically good fonts for text work (and rely on their kerning pairs) but manually kern the crap out of display.

Gerald

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