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Letter spacing and kerning tables


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Two features which are great in QXP (and not available in ID) are custom tables for letter spacing and kerning of a given font. This is very useful because some fonts (even pro) have very bad kerning tables (or missing ones). Letter spacing tables are useful for tweaking fonts depending on their size used. Think of footnote text of a font that does not have an optical size for small sizes. Custom kerning tables are most useful when you have to use a font whose kerning is bad. For example, in a recent project, I had to use Plantin MT Pro as a body copy. When using italics I got a lot of issues with bad kerning (e.g. typical Va, Wa etc. but also f<space>T, f<space>W etc.). And to kern manually in a 464 pages book would kill you. BTW it would be great to have this feature not only for a given font (say MinionPro-Regular) but also for a defined size. For example, this would open up the possibility to define a style for a footnote style with correct expanded letter spacing combined with correct kerning tables for best reading experience.

Please consider this for Affinity Publisher!

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