From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 13:15:47 EST
At 09:23 AM 3/10/2003, Kent Karlsson wrote:
>You mean negative kerning (tweaking them apart)? That is almost certain
>to create horrible glyph spacing for many fonts.
In the hierarchy of typographical sins, collisions between letters and
accent marks are usually worse than the spacing problems introduced to
avoid such collisions. The exception may be in typefaces with a very wide f
with a long overhang, in which case a variant f would come in handy. The
most elegant solution is to a) decompose all diacritics and dynamically
position marks, b) contextually substitute a narrower f before diacritic
letters as appropriate, c) contextually shift the accent mark slightly as
appropriate to finesse the positioning. Ligatures are really a very
inefficient way of dealing with such situations.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
It is necessary that by all means and cunning,
the cursed owners of books should be persuaded
to make them available to us, either by argument
or by force. - Michael Apostolis, 1467
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