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David JONESall the glyphs have widths that are multiples of a stripe, and as you can see (up toot) there are 6 extra stripes required in the 2nd row to fill the gap. I designed in the font for U+200A HAIR SPACE, U+2009 THIN SPACE, U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE to be 1-,2-,3-stripes wide. They can be used to center the text. With a U+2008 on each side (1st image).For social media posts, it's a bit tight, and needs a bit of extra padding. So i add another U+200A either side.<a href="https://typo.social/tags/RainbowRocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RainbowRocket</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Spacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spacing</a>

David JONESSo for my new Rainbow Rocket font, <a href="https://kishkush.net/@iorsh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@iorsh</a> asks a question that i was intending to address, which is basically, how come the words in "AUTUMN LEAVES" are centered? Why, in fact, doesn't it look like the picture on the right?The answer is thinner Unicode spaces. It's why i published a blog on spaces: <a href="https://home.octetfont.com/blog/unicode-space.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://home.octetfont.com/blog/unicode-space.html</a><a href="https://typo.social/tags/RainbowRocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RainbowRocket</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Spacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spacing</a>

ErikHeadline from today’s <a href="https://mastodon.nl/@volkskrant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@volkskrant</a> “weggeëbd”, present perfect of the verb“wegebben”. Three e’s, double g, bd, what’s not to like. <a href="https://typo.social/tags/kerning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kerning</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/spacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spacing</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/letters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#letters</a>

David JONESToday i've been tweaking my Glyphs script that, in a Glyphs tab, puts each glyph(*) between test glyphs to check the spacing. It's still rough, but useful (and the Glyphs tab be printed with Cmd-P to make PDFs). It tries to be slightly clever, for example by spacing smallcaps between both /H.sc and /n.<a href="https://gitlab.com/drj11/script-glyphs/-/blob/main/Spaced.py" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/drj11/script-glyphs/-/blob/main/Spaced.py</a>Example shows some smallcaps, the numbers, and some punctuation.(*) actually at the moment "only" Letters, Numbers, Punctuation.<a href="https://typo.social/tags/FontDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FontDesign</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Spacing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spacing</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Proof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Proof</a>

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