Post #1484393
2026-01-05 18:28 UTC
@lowtech @gdc That’s not a thing in current font formats for general typography. You may be remembering one of any number of online discussions about banded/bubble kerning, dating back to at least the comp.fonts Usenet group in the mid-1990s.
The closest thing to an implementation of this at the font data level would be cut-in kerning for OpenType math typesetting.
cf. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/cleartype/pdfs/cambriamath.pdf
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@lowtech@tldr.nettime.org 2026-01-05 20:37
@TiroTypeworks @gdc Oh thanks! I knew I'd heard it somewhere, but good to know it's not current.