2 posts tagged “kerning”

After each posting to Vox I noticed that ‘Recent posts’ was filled with splogs, spam blogs. I have been reporting a lot to Vox, and wasn’t sure if they did anything with my reports. Others I know, who are friends here, have done the same.
   Today, I noticed something refreshing: no splogs at all among the ‘Recent posts’! I hope this wasn’t a fluke, but that Vox has genuinely fixed this problem. Maybe it went and deleted all the blogs associated with a certain group of IPs, or it has been able to tell which were started by spambots.
   Also notice, for the type geeks out there, the kerning in Firefox! I see Vo and Yo combinations below. I even enjoy typing YouTube for the kerns in Yo and uTu in my default Lucire sans serif typeface.

Vox fixes splog problem

I have had a few odd things happen with posting to Vox since switching to Firefox. When posting a video, it is difficult to have two consecutive ones. If I click on the video image accidentally, another screen pops up inside the input field. There is no way to get back the original text.
   I also had an error when saving today and thought I had lost a post, when in fact it had got through.
   Anyone else face these issues?
   Likes: the automatic kerning for some typefaces, but there seems to be no consistency on which get kerned and which do not. Some of the versions of our in-house Lucire typeface get kerned and others don’t. However, I do know some are OpenType and others are PostScript.
   Most of my fonts are PostScript but I don’t think the Firefox developers would care about an old format like that (plus, PostScript support was terrible before version 3). So, I assumed that there is kerning for OpenType, but on investigation, that doesn’t hold true, either (Georgia, Trébuchet and Verdana are all OpenType here and they aren’t kerned). No doubt I’ll figure it out by process of elimination.