This is very interesting, reminds me of David Kindersley's work on 'optical
spacing'. I think that spacing for web and screen fonts could be dealt with
like this fairly straightforward because of the role that the pixel grid plays
in determining final rendered spacing. Would be interesting to te
>> I think, that could work like this: the software has to build and
>> you conture around any glyphe, in a way that the distance to the
>> outline of the glyphe is depending on its form, so that the new
>> outline is closer to sharp edges then to straight lines. this could
>> be done in the way I
> I think, that could work like this: the software has to build and
> you conture around any glyphe, in a way that the distance to the
> outline of the glyphe is depending on its form, so that the new
> outline is closer to sharp edges then to straight lines. this could
> be done in the way I hav
That is an interesting idea.
And probably easier to implement than the only other automatic kerning
idea I've seen mentioned¹.
1] Compute the arithmetic mean and the 4th order moment of the glyph,
then compute a circle centered at the glyph's mean with radius equal
to the 4th moment. Ad
