Re: [DejaVu-fonts] kerning pairs with T in Sans Book

[Sander V. <san...@gm...>]

On 7/24/06, Denis Jacquerye <mo...@gm...> wrote:
>
> There's a patch trying to fix the tight kerning in Sans Book at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7450
>
> It only deals with one issue: tight kerning with T.
> Could we test Sans with that kerning.
>
> This will add a pixel here and there as well as more space on paper,
> so overall DejaVu Sans could take a bit more space.
> On the good side it will make accented characters bump less into T
> (this could be fixed with different kerning based on what diacritic a
> character has).



Diverging from Vera in faces that are present in both is bad though as it
makes DejaVu no longer be a drop in replacement as document formating can
break as a result.


Cheers,
>
> Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
>