I believe that kerning is already done that way. Basically you use your glyphs (and popular letter pairs), feed them to an app, it gives you approximate good kerning based on visible gray and possible line crossings. Then the creator adjusts anything that doesn't look completely fine, adds ligatures, etc.

Youtube seems to have a lot of examples. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zCVx9L90ac ?)