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Awesome read! I've never designed a font but often daydreamed about it, and this was a great primer to the process.

Question: Did you find that your automated kerning generator was always satisfactory? Or did you ever catch letter pairings that technically satisfied the criteria but that tripped your subjective kerning radar? I'm wondering if you had to hard-code kerning exceptions, or if your system even allowed for that.

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I absolutely did find examples where I needed to specify. I kind of allude to that in the post, but yeah whenever I add the ability to automate something like this, I almost always make sure to include the ability for me to manually override them. Experience has taught me that no matter how fancy or super special your algorithm is, there's always situations where the naked eye just sees what the robot can't.

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