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Accidental kerning pair in Sans: standard (tabular) 1 and 7 #472
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Activity
Perhaps a clearer way to prove that this is a kerning issue:
Kapture.2021-08-10.at.16.30.53.mp4
I might also explore making the default
1a little wider at the bottom right, or maybe even added a contextual alternate ... I can see what kerning was added to that pair, because it there is a pretty big visual gap in that pair, when they have no kerning.- added a commit that references this issue
on Aug 10, 2021
Problem description
Today, I got a message from a friend on Twitter:
Expected behavior
Tabular figures should basically be monospace – they should all have exactly the same width, with no kerning.
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Cause
This is actually seemingly due to errant kerning in the
17pair, rather than the7having a different width. Note that in Font Goggles, the1is shown to have different widths when used next to7than8– that is how Font Goggles shows the result of kerning. This is the case across weights (All weights in Recursive share the same kerning.)Recursive Sans has tabular figures active by default, and only a
pnum(proportional numbers) OpenType feature as an option (not a tabular numbers feature). Withpnum, things look as expected: