Modern (1990s onward) software for creating fonts allows you to specify automated kerning values for letter pairs. Why the designer of Papyrus did not set up proper kerning for letter pairs like Fa Pr Tr is puzzling. It was a cool font before it was overused but poor kerning pairs make its use in titles and heads painful to the most tolerant eye.
If you’re really determined (and who is, when you get to it?), you can manually kern those. I know, because I have, for a client that just couldn’t let it go. But it takes QUITE a while to do, the right software, etc. No doubt that despite all the Papyrus-hate due to overuse, some bozo will develop a derivative with kerned pairs. Just wait and see, boys and girls.
Modern (1990s onward) software for creating fonts allows you to specify automated kerning values for letter pairs. Why the designer of Papyrus did not set up proper kerning for letter pairs like Fa Pr Tr is puzzling. It was a cool font before it was overused but poor kerning pairs make its use in titles and heads painful to the most tolerant eye.
If you’re really determined (and who is, when you get to it?), you can manually kern those. I know, because I have, for a client that just couldn’t let it go. But it takes QUITE a while to do, the right software, etc. No doubt that despite all the Papyrus-hate due to overuse, some bozo will develop a derivative with kerned pairs. Just wait and see, boys and girls.
*cough* well, I do have in storage a Mac with Fontographer installed … if it still works … mwah hahaha I feel the evil rising