Comment Re:It's OS dependant, damn. (Score 1) 282
Safari and Camino (Gecko) on OS X. Both blocks of text are the same length.
If you think about it, this is probably the desired result, otherwise there would be a small area of space between VA and much more space between AA or VV. Which would then look unbalanced.
This is the centuries-old practice that the article seems to be trying to reinvent. Adobe InDesign has had "optical" kerning for a while now.
If you think about it, this is probably the desired result, otherwise there would be a small area of space between VA and much more space between AA or VV. Which would then look unbalanced.
This is the centuries-old practice that the article seems to be trying to reinvent. Adobe InDesign has had "optical" kerning for a while now.