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		tln 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: uWrap.js – A faster and more accurate tex... You'd need more than just letter widths because of kerning and ligatures, for 100% accuracy. Anyway, fontkit can work on the server and can get individual glyph metrics as well as metrics for a run of glyphs. https://github.com/foliojs/fontkit

RadiozRadioz 8 months ago | [–]

I don't use ligatures and my solution to the keming problem is to overprovision. Thanks for the link though.

leeoniya 8 months ago | [–]

yep, uWrap internally builds a lookup table for char pairs that differ significantly in width together from just adding their raw widths.

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