Try the Cairo backend, adding -dbackend=cairo on the command line or #(ly:set-option 'backend 'cairo) in the file. It is partly because of font issues like this that the legacy SVG backend is usually inferior to the new Cairo backend.
- SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerning Kevin Cole
- Re: SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerning Jean Abou Samra
- Re: SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerning Kevin Cole
- Re: SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerning Jean Abou Samra
- Re: SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerning Jean Abou Samra
- Re: SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerni... Kevin Cole