Kern On

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Kern On is a kerning assistant, devised and coded by @timahrens. Download from https://kern-on.com
Kern OnJan 30, 2025
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Show threadKern OnApr 27, 2023

@jaf Nice! JAF Cupidus was kerned with Kern On.

Did you know? The Cupidus italics are entirely autokerned (and partly autospaced) on the basis of the uprights, without any additional manual input. 😎

Show threadKern OnApr 26, 2023
@colinmford Yes, Kern On applies a threshold. While doing so, it takes into account the deviation (as you describe) as well as the frequency: infrequent pairs are given somewhat more tolerance than frequent pairs.
Show threadKern OnApr 26, 2023
@colinmford Yes, this is how it works. It just means that the step of the process when kerning groups are automatically created is skipped and instead, the manual ones are loaded (of course, the “manual” ones may in fact be generated by Kern On in a previous session).
Kern OnApr 26, 2023

With yesterday’s update, Kern On supports manually set kerning groups. It took me a while to get it but it’s conceptually fairly easy:

• Kern On no longer erases existing kerning groups as it starts.
• As before, while KO is running, it only generates glyph-glyph pairs on-the-fly. The kerning groups are left unused.
• After pushing the “Kern On” button, you can select whether you want to re-generate the kerning groups. If not, Kern On will use your manually set groups.

https://kern-on.com/update/

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