Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

Re:Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code by speleo_engr on Saturday April 01, 2017 @09:19AM (#14011963)

Monospaced fonts simply mean that the horizontal width is constant. While this also means there aren't any kerning pairs, it is a different concept. Simply disabling kerning does not mean a font is monospaced.

Kerning is a table of pairs that allows them to have more aggressive advance values. For example, with a sequential 'V' and 'A', the 'A' could be moved closer to the 'V'. But kerning doesn't have anything to do with the fact that in a variable width font that 'I' is narrower than 'X'.

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Re:Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code by gkya on Saturday April 01, 2017 @09:36AM (#14012036)

And did I say otherwise?

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Re:Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code by planteen on Saturday April 01, 2017 @10:13AM (#14012195)

I guess I took your statement, "because there's no kerning (each character takes up equal space)" to mean "no kerning means each character takes up equal space". Maybe that's not what you meant with those parenthesis.

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Re:Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code by gkya on Saturday April 01, 2017 @12:07PM (#14012747)

Oh, I meant each character's taking up equal space did not allow for kerning. I see that I've not phrased that well, sorry.

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