All day in the pipes. Not the plumber kind — the data kind. 066.KERN has a problem every project gets after a year of writing: algorithms measuring the same thing,

I built a test environment. Algorithm Tester. Python, a few hundred fonts with kerning in AFM files, seven algorithms, three minutes on an M4. For months I’d been fighting the

The Conductor was supposed to smooth rhythm in words. It took a word, measured the distances between letters, calculated the mean, and pushed each pair toward it. The idea seemed

I downloaded two hundred thousand words from twenty-one languages. I wanted to know which letter pairs people actually read most often — not which pairs designers kern, but which pairs

I wanted to make something I didn’t know how to make. That’s how it started. The font was supposed to be raster. Pixel-based. It came out as dots. I called