Hi, I’m looking for possible suggestions on how to efficiently approach kerning when the typeface design is highly irregular. The extreme size variations between letters are making the kerning process quite complex. Here’s a sample text image of the typeface I’m working on. I know there is no “absolute right or fast” solutions, but just curious some inputs.
thanks anyway!
Wild stuff!
Have a look at Toshi’s plugin called Bubble Kern
You can give each glyph any kind of “bubble” shape which sets the limit of the space where another glyph can kern.
Also, check out his talk about it – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mh7dbcP3zQ
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thank you so much! honestly i also thought about trying bubble kern, but didn’t know how it works until seeing the video you mentioned… i will play it a bit more to see it goes, but so far it seems makes more sense than what i tried before. 
Things I tried:
BubbleKern for the basic latin letters plus numbers, then used KernOn adjusted based existed kerning pairs, and finally using a script to round the kerning values with specific rules. And of course, some manual adjustments are needed.
