Like everything that is considered here, this also depends on the design of the font. The values on the adjacent sides or two neighboring letters can be summed up to determine whether this is a possible kerning pair. The form of each letter can be described schematically by simple numerical values. See docs/01-kern-dump.html (2) Potential kerning pairsДЄnother approach to determine possible kerning pairs is combinatorial. In Script 3G you can decide for yourself where you would like to make this cut, if desired. Which sounds a lot, but it leaves us with 11899 remaining most popular kerning pairs. In the end, I removed all values lower than 20 percent of the maximum value. It helped a lot to cut off the long tail at some place. This use count contains a lot of noise caused by subjective decisions and/or group based kerning, possibly. This means, for the set of 300 characters considered, dazzling 80 % of the possible 90000 combinations are (more or less) used. 72377 unique kerning pairs were used in these fonts. It uses parts of the Adobe Type Tools, see directory 'kernDump'. But you can apply this script to any font collection you might want to look at yourself. As a sample I was content with the about 2700 font files of the Google Fonts Archive.

LetвЂ™s start by looking at kern tables of existing fonts to collect more or less common kerning pairs statistically. the large sample size of texts in many languages. Some parts may also be useful for other works, e.g. In case you want to reproduce parts of this work: All scripts are self-explanatory and numbered according to the following article. Depending on your typefaceвЂ™s style you don't have to kern each and everyone of them, of course. The first 1000 to 2000 pairs should have you covered sufficiently in all languages, see (4) for details. рџЌЂ вњЁ result/relevant_kerning_clustered.txt.рџЌЂ вњЁ result/relevant_kerning_with_padding.txt.It takes into account the Unicode blocks from Basic Latin to Latin Extended A (plus all kinds of quotes), 24 languages so far and various typeface styles. This list will help you (or your neural network) assess which kerning pairs you should look at and where to stop. This repository is intended for type designers looking for sample texts for the most complete kerning necessary. The relevance score is determined by frequency of occurrence in texts, popularity among type designers and the necessary kerning value. The Ultimate List of Kerning Pairs Table Of ContentДЇind a list of kerning pairs below, ordered by relevance.

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