Automating Font Tweaking with Python

Since my last post, I did some more research in regard to this kerning thing on Kobo devices, and I wrote a whole script to automate many of the changes I’ve been manually making to various fonts. In particular, I wanted to automate the creation of the legacy kern table that Kobo devices use when rendering text on firmware 4.x. That’s the same thing I blogged about last time . 1 How we got here It…