As one can see, the glyphs of the Courier family are smaller than those of Times New Roman, which themselves are slightly smaller than those of @@ -443,14 +443,14 @@ even for right-to-left oriented alphabets, like Arabic. This introduces some differences in the way text is rendered.
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Here is a picture giving all the details for horizontal metrics :
And here is another one for the vertical metrics :
Compare this to the same word, when the distance between these two letters has been slightly reduced :
As you can see, this adjustment can make a great difference. Some font faces thus include a table containing kerning distances for a set of given @@ -721,14 +721,14 @@ a kerning distance between capital letters like "T" or "F" and a following dot ("."), in order to slide the latter glyph just right to their main leg. I.e.
However, this sometimes requires additional adjustments between the dot and the letter following it, depending on the shapes of the enclosing letters. When applying "standard" kerning adjustments, the previous sentence would become :
Which clearly is too contracted. The solution here, as exhibited in the first example is to only slide the dots when possible. Of course, this @@ -1093,21 +1093,21 @@ contour, even though no current font driver produces such outlines.
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