: In my experience it is typical even for many professionally designed fonts to omit some relatively important kern pairs or kern things less than well, especially once you step outside the basic

@Angie364

In my experience it is typical even for many professionally designed fonts to omit some relatively important kern pairs or kern things less than well, especially once you step outside the basic A-Z, or capitals followed by lowercase. Common weak points are symbols next to letters, lowercase letters preceding capital letters (important for many modern product names like "OpenType") and any non-latin letters (Russian, Greek, whatever).

For example, "nT" is not kerned in Helvetica Neue:



Whereas Nimbus Sans, also based on Helvetica, gets it right.



Not that this makes Nimbus Sans a better typeface.

Myfonts lets you try out letter combinations, with the font's included kerning and OpenType features like ligatures, which is great for trying before you buy.

This way, you can verify before you buy a font whether the included kerning is right for you. And in your case, you can use it to verify whether it's a specific problem with your copy of the font, or it's the way it was designed.

Note: doing this same on Typekit will not necessarily give you as accurate results as on MyFonts, because on Typekit they are rendered as web fonts by the browser, and thus depend on browser support for OpenType features.

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