Kerning a pixel font?

[larshoie]

Hello! I'm working on a pixel font with a very coarse grid and wonder if it's possible to make kern-on respect the grid defined in font info? I would still like it to kern the font, but only for example -50 or +50 (sticking to the underlying grid). Right now it's kerning for example -7 or -29 and it's breaking the overall rhythm. Thanks and love the plugin :))

[SCarewe]

This is currently not possible from within Kern On, no. What you can do is run Kern On and then run a simple script that rounds all kerning values to units of 50.

[Tim Ahrens]

Thanks for pointing this out. It’s not too difficult for me to implement the application of the font’s grid. I’ll add that to my to-do list.

Another possible work-around would be to work with a UPM of 20 (if your grid is currently 50 units at 1000 UPM). This is what I would do anyway, I guess.