Roll Your Own

[3rd3]

It is very exhausting to set up kerning using typebutter.com/roll-your-own. Is there a way to speed up this process (e.g. by showing the examples right next to the text fields and reloading the kerning only after a few keystrokes, instead of immediately)? Or is it even possible to take existing kerning information from some source and convert it into the TypeButter format?

[hudsonfoo]

Yeah, it's definitely on the slow side. I'll get to fixing that but it may be awhile. I may also just add the demo page to this repo so others can improve it.

What sources can you pull kerning info from? I may be able to write a parser.

[3rd3]

One could hack a little script for Adobe Illustrator, or maybe this:
https://github.com/charlesmchen/typefacet/tree/master/python/src-main/autokern
http://charlesmchen.github.com/typefacet/topics/autokern/index.html

Also some fonts seem to have kerning tables.