Looks like the domain expired and got bought up. Here’s an Internet Archive link to the page:
http://web.archive.org/web/20180621013020/http://www.logofontandlettering.com/kernking.html
Updated the earlier link, too.
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Came across this thread while doing some research for my own kerning strings. Thought I’d add in a few bits for anyone else that stumbles across it like me.
The best two resources I return to are the link Tim Ahrens posted above and Andre Fuchs’ relevant kerning pairs:
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Hi, I saw that my study on kerning pairs is linked here. Thanks @thommilson. Let me share a few more thoughts on it.
Most lists of kerning pairs that I found in the past were limited, which means personally opinionated, limited to a few languages only and mostly looking for the most obvious formal oddities. I tried to approach this problem in a more scientific way:
The ultimate list of kerning pairs
In almost all languages that I included in this study about one third of all letter pairs qualify as kerning pairs. I introduced a “kern score” to determine the relevance of each pair by frequency of occurance, the necessary kerning value and popularity among type designers. This study provides multiple formats to work with, all sorted by relevance:
- a raw list of kerning pairs
- a list with additional padding … as I personally use it in Glyphs
- clustered by type (uppercase, lowercase)
- as a text with most common words … as @mekkablue recommends
I look forward to your feedback and/or contributions. This publication could be expanded to include kerning groups, for example. Hugo from Dinamo is working on it to include non-Latin languages as far as I know. Microsoft is using it for their most recent fonts.
Here is an excerpt of the top 100 kerning pairs to give you an idea, the tail is longer, of course.
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