InDesign Shows Kern Value but doesn't Apply it Unless the Language is the Same

Question

This is really a font issues of some sort, but I'm wondering if anyone has seen this behavior in InDesign to help me get closer to finding a solution.

We're updating a font we created to the newest version of the font editing software. When generating the OTF file from the newest version of editing software every thing almost perfect, except that InDesign isn't applying kern pairs between two characters that have different languages. The oddest thing is that when you click between the two characters InDesign shows the correct kern value in the button bar 😐 it just doesn't visually apply it. This does not happen with the font generated from the older version of the font editing software.

Has anyone else seen this behavior in InDedsign? Where it shows a kern value between to characters but doesn't actually implement it?

Thanks for reading!
Ken

Mike Witherell · Answer

Ken,Have you tried setting the paragraph style to optical kerning instead of metrics kerning? One superiority of Optical Kerning is that it can work with differing type sizes and typefaces in the same line.

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