on 2011-09-15 10:41 Mark Roberts wrote
Darren Addy<[email protected]> wrote:
There are a ton of
free font sites out there and good free fonts can be found, but there
is a lot of crap out there, as well. In breaking down a font, the
letter forms themselves might be fine, but the leading may be
inconsistent as you type them on the computer.
I think you're a bit astray here: Leading is the height (vertical
distance) between lines of text and not part of the font
characteristic at all. You may be referring to the Set Width of the
characters, which is a characteristic of the font.
i think he's referring more to the kerning tables, which, as you mention,
define the spacing of individual pairs of characters (e.g. "To" should be
spaced differently from "Th"); these kerning pairs make a big difference in the
"color" of large blocks of type (how the text looks as a mass); good fonts have
hundreds or thousands of hand-tuned kerning pairs; knock-off and hobby fonts
often have little regard for this kind of quality; compensating for this by
hand is hopeless with large quantities of text, but there are tools, such as
the Optical Character Spacing option in InDesign, which can force shabby fonts
to lay out with fairly good color, assuming other aspects of the font are adequate
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