Kerning Issues with

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I’m including some screenshots as a starting point to explain the issue I’m facing:

  • I have a Thin and Black master set, which exports seven total weights (Thin, Light, Regular, Semibold, Bold, ExtraBold, and Black).

  • The Black weight has “Link Metrics with Master” set to Thin, which, as I understand, links the kerning tables from the Thin weight?

The main problem is that in certain instances, some characters go out of bounds horizontally on the canvas when using the Black weight. This results in kerning pair issues during previews and when using the exported Black weight font.

I’m at a total loss on how to solve this. I’ve spent the past few days browsing through your forums and guidebook without finding a solution.

Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Kindly,
George

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I don’t think that it is a good idea to link the metrics of the Black and the Light. As you see, the Bold “M” is much wider than the Light. Spacing and kerning of a font like this has to be done per Master.

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It syncs all the metrics, more specifically the left side bearing and the full width of the glyph (at least in LTR direction). It also syncs kerning, yes, but that is only a byproduct.

As Georg pointed out, this is not what you want. Remove the parameter. Copy the kerning over from one master to the other by opening the Kerning window, selecting all (Cmd+A) and copy-pasting it to the other master.

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(It doesn’t touch the LSB, only the width)

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Copy that Sebastian/Georg

Thanks for the clarification.

Best,
George