OPEN all kerning locks

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Hello,

I’ve seen tons of questions and answers relating to CLOSING all kerning locks, but I would like to know if there is a way to OPEN all kerning locks.

I have a hand-lettered typeface and I started off using kerning groups, but as I go along working on my alternate forms and ligatures I’m finding I actually have more exceptions than non-exceptions and would like to just open all kerning locks because I find I’m forgetting to manually open them and then messing up my previous pairs that way.

Hope someone has an idea of how to fix this!
Julie

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Are you sure you can’t improve your spacing before you add to many kerning pairs?

3

It’s a script typeface with a few letters that intentionally do not connect. My spacing is great throughout for where the script letters connect and even for the majority of letter pairs in the standard A-Z and a-z range, but for a few places where I have two non-connecting letters together, I need to kern those. And because I have about 200 ligatures that incorporate those but each one is individually hand-drawn to be different from one another on purpose, the kerning groups are turning out to be creating more work for me instead of alleviating work.

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So for example, I have all of the following 37 ligatures with non-connecting letter f:

a_f b_f c_f e_f f_a f_b f_f f_f_i f_h f_i f_k f_l f_n f_o f_o_r f_r f_s f_t f_u f_v g_f h_f i_f j_f k_f o_f p_f s_f t_f t_h_f u_f v_f w_f x_f y_f z_f a_f.001

but each one of those ligatures is individually hand-drawn and so none is spaced quite the same as the others and none should really be in a kerning group together.

5

So I suppose an alternate question is this: Is there an easy way to remove all kerning groups from a set of selected glyphs?

6

In Font View, select the glyphs, click in the left or right kerning group field (in the glyph Info Panel in the bottom left), overwrite the existing group with a space, then delete. Done.

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OK great - thank you!