Various scripts for analyzing, reading and writing kerning information. These
can be helpful for analyzing kerning (and the loss thereof) through various
stages of font production.
As Presented at ATypI Amsterdam 2013.
Dump a viable kern feature interpreted from the GPOS table found in a compiled font.
Dependencies: getKerningPairsFromOTF.py (same repo), fontTools
Environment: command line
python dumpKernFeatureFromOTF.py font.otf
python dumpKernFeatureFromOTF.py font.ttf
Extract a list of all kerning pairs that would be created from a feature file.
Has the ability to use a GlyphOrderAndAliasDB file for translation of
“friendly” glyph names to final glyph names (for comparison with the output of
getKerningPairsFromOTF.py)
Dependencies: None
Environment: command line
python getKerningPairsFromFeatureFile.py kern.fea
python getKerningPairsFromFeatureFile.py -go <path to GlyphOrderAndAliasDB file> kern.fea
Extract a list of all (flat) GPOS kerning pairs in a font, and report the absolute number of pairs.
Dependencies: fontTools
Environment: command line
python getKerningPairsFromOTF.py font.otf
python getKerningPairsFromOTF.py font.ttf
Extract a list of all (flat) kerning pairs in a UFO file’s kern object, and report the absolute number of pairs.
Dependencies: defcon or Robofont
Environment: command line or Robofont
python getKerningPairsFromUFO.py font.ufo
(Silly) visualization of absolute kerning distance.
Example of using the above getKerningPairsFromUFO.py from within Robofont.
Dependencies: getKerningPairsFromUFO.py (above)
Environment: Robofont
