There’s a new beta update in Illustrator that fixes a lot of issues when dealing with kerning pairs, groups and when importing kerning (and spacing) from other Fontself-made font files.
As we try to find new ways to make your life easier, we thought about including a predefined set of kerning groups and kerning pairs. Of course, kerning is going to be really different depending on each font design, and whether you have spent a lot of time refining your spacing first.
But in many cases, it may be great to NOT start from scratch. So we’ve gathered in a dummy font file a first set of 46 groups (for both uppercase and lowercase letters). Based on these groups, we’ve also created 26 master pairs - which already results into 382 sibling pairs - for uppercase only for now.
JustGroupsNPairs.otf (44.8 KB)
All these pairs have a minimal value (-1) but you can adjust them (or delete them) based on the specifics of your font.
Right now you will need the new Fontself beta 3.0.0-2 to import this font file from the Import Kerning button.
Warning: when you will import the kerning data, you might be prompted to scale your glyphs. This will happen when glyphs from both fonts have different sizes, so just press Ignore and Import.
So what do you think about this idea of kerning presets? @Hybi @Vocal @Mehmet @mikkomix @wendyzine @Jelle @AlanP @twinbrush @harleycreative @mmnowak86 @itsmesimon @fvnetu @NREY @Sascha