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no kerning group?
Posted: 11 Feb 2024
by synthview
Hello,
I am looking at the kernings generated by Kern-On and spotted this:
Thorn;Y;-140
Thorn;Yacute;-140
Thorn;Ymacron;-140
Shouldn't we expect a group here?
Re: no kerning group?
Posted: 11 Feb 2024
by Tim Ahrens
Class kerning (groups, as Glyphs calls it) is not necessarily better in this case:
- Three glyph-glyph pairs cost 3 * 4 bytes plus overhead for the first glyph.
- Writing these pairs into the class kerning table will add a row to the table, which costs 2 bytes per cell plus class definition overhead.
Writing a sparse row is inefficient. In this case, using glyph-glyph pairs is more efficient unless the subtable row is very short.
Re: no kerning group?
Posted: 11 Feb 2024
by synthview
wow smart! ok thanks :)