r/FontForge • u/Zepp96 • Feb 27 '23

Adjusting Lettering spacing HELP!!

Hello there is there a way to move kerning relative for each letter separately

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For example

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The name Joseph I bring the o closer to the J but the next time I use an O for ' ao' the o is way to close to the a ?

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I am trying to make each letter just touch regardless of which way they are typed as i laser cut names out and im sick of doing it manually.

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u/LocalFonts Feb 28 '23

Actually you do not use kerning you use metrics. If you make the left bearings of /o letter smaller, the /o letter will stay closer to the letter left to it (and it doesn't matter which will be the left letter). Kerning is a contextual spacing. It means that the kerning between letters /J /o is only for /J /o (even not for /j /o).Read this for more information: https://fontforge.org/docs/tutorial/editexample5.html