Kerning
Adjusting the space between one specific pair of letters, because some pairs leave a hole that the general spacing cannot fix.
Near it
What it is made of
| measured on this shelf | 80 of the 84 files carry a GPOS kern feature, holding between 1,766 pairs (Drew Poster Black) and 6,416 (Drew Slab Bold), median 3,724 | read off all 84 files with fontTools on the fixed shelf, 2026-09-29, counting each explicit pair once and each class pair with a nonzero adjustment once. The 1,881 to 6,558 this row carried were counted on 2026-09-11 by a method it did not record, on a build that was replaced before it shipped, and no count reproduces them on the shelf that did |
| the four exceptions | the Drew Mono weights carry no GPOS table at all | which is the face being consistent rather than unfinished: a kern moves one glyph relative to the next, and a monospaced face whose advances are all equal has nothing it may move |
Done well
- the distinction worth keeping, kerning is per-pair, tracking is across a run
Ligature
Sidebearing