Unnecessary kerning in Noto Sans Inscriptional Pahlavi

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Font

NotoSansInscriptionalPahlavi-Regular.otf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/960e0072cdb4789cc742d6f25789db94ed688b48/unhinted/otf/NotoSansInscriptionalPahlavi/NotoSansInscriptionalPahlavi-Regular.otf
Date: 2021-04-05

Font version

Version 2.000

Issue

'kern' can insert extraneous space between a beth and a letter without a descender when the latter precedes a letter with a descender. Sometimes the space is necessary to avoid overlap, but many descenderless letters are wide enough for the space to not be necessary. For such letters, it looks better without kerning.

Character data

𐭡𐭤𐭭
U+10B61 INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER BETH
U+10B64 INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER HE
U+10B6D INSCRIPTIONAL PAHLAVI LETTER NUN

Screenshots

Default:

With kerning disabled: