Typophile

kerning: all glyph combinations in a font

Martin LAllier

Maybe my question has been asked somewhere else already, but search not beign available yet...

Is there a way, either from Fontlab or from a script (maybe robofog?) to have a list of all the glyph combinations possible. Lets say an output to a txt file.

For instance, I’m currently working on a 620 glyphs font and would like to quickly check out all the possible miss matches in the metrics and kerning. I’ve used the KernKing by Mr Cabarga but I’ve yet many more glyphs that are not covered in there.

Thanks in advance!

There’s a little thing called an AFM file...

... And another one called class-kerning.

It’s not a good idea to check every possible combination of letters. With 620 glyphs you have more than 380000 possible pa

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