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1ndivisible
Inspiring
August 23, 2017
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Problem With Kerning Around Commas

  • August 23, 2017
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I've just switched fonts in a document from Joanna to the newer cut Joanna Nova Light.

Although Joanna Nova is a marked improvement on the Monotype cut, I'm having problems with the way it's displaying. It seems to render commas with far too much spacing around them - to the point it almost looks like they are followed by double spaces. The problem is obvious, no matter what letter the comma follows, though it is worse with some than others. Looking at the same font in Illustrator or online on the fonts.com website.

Kerning is set to Optical, and tracking is at 0. Note that it appears that extra space is added both before and after the comma.

I can't see any settings that might be effecting this so any help would be appreciated. The font is made available to my local machine via Skyfonts, though that shouldn't make a difference.

Here are two examples - screen caps from inDesign.

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Correct answer 1ndivisible

Just after writing this I found the answer. The bass style's Open Type's Figure Style had been set to Tabular Oldstyle.

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 24, 2017

I can't see any settings that might be effecting this

The Paragraph or Paragraph Style's Justification setting would have an effect on any font. I looks like there's a lot of letter and word spacing in your example?

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1ndivisibleAuthor
Inspiring
August 24, 2017

Thanks Rob,

That is helpful for reducing the word-spacing, but the problem is that those settings effect spacing indiscriminately. The real problem is the spacing around the commas. It seems to be specific to this face when used within this document. It is not present if I create a brand new document with the same text in it. So there must be a setting somewhere within this document that is responsible.

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1ndivisibleAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
August 24, 2017

Just after writing this I found the answer. The bass style's Open Type's Figure Style had been set to Tabular Oldstyle.

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