NG
As long as you have an eye for it, manual kerning should be easy-peasy.
And the irony is that it was a standard function on even early-80s to 90s Caption Generators like Aston 3, Aston 4, Motif/Ethos etc. It was sometimes called Delta-Spacing, and most decent CG ops would spend some time (if they had the time) to tweak things to look nicer.
Early Cap Gens had to include a manual delta-space/kerning option because they didn't have letter-pair kerning tables in their typefaces - but even when Postscript/Truetype style vector fonts were introduced in the early-90s, manual kerning was still possible (particularly as cheap typefaces often have poor kerning tables)
the version of Gill Sans that the BBC use on astons has a particularly annoying kerning fault on the letters a and u. They appear extremely close together in words like 'author' and apparently there's very little that can be done about it (though if Motif has Delta-spacing perhaps I ought to investigate!). You see this appear on any region that uses an Aston - even on the daytime BBC One news summaries!
If you are using automation to generate CGs then Delta Spacing isn't going to help - you do it manually for each character as you type the caption (or in busy areas you typed every caption in as quickly as possible, and then went back and made them look nicer if you had time!)
noggin
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As long as you have an eye for it, manual kerning should be easy-peasy.
And the irony is that it was a standard function on even early-80s to 90s Caption Generators like Aston 3, Aston 4, Motif/Ethos etc. It was sometimes called Delta-Spacing, and most decent CG ops would spend some time (if they had the time) to tweak things to look nicer.
Early Cap Gens had to include a manual delta-space/kerning option because they didn't have letter-pair kerning tables in their typefaces - but even when Postscript/Truetype style vector fonts were introduced in the early-90s, manual kerning was still possible (particularly as cheap typefaces often have poor kerning tables)
the version of Gill Sans that the BBC use on astons has a particularly annoying kerning fault on the letters a and u. They appear extremely close together in words like 'author' and apparently there's very little that can be done about it (though if Motif has Delta-spacing perhaps I ought to investigate!). You see this appear on any region that uses an Aston - even on the daytime BBC One news summaries!
If you are using automation to generate CGs then Delta Spacing isn't going to help - you do it manually for each character as you type the caption (or in busy areas you typed every caption in as quickly as possible, and then went back and made them look nicer if you had time!)