Is there a term for "smart kerning" this that digital typographers use? Is it a feature of OpenType? Is it similar to/controlled be the font-kerning property in CSS?
> Smart kerning works by looking at single letter between two other letters. If the other letters are in different width classes, the middle letter will slide closer to the narrow letter.
From this paragraph it sounds like they're using ligatures, which are rules of "when this character sequence appears, use this glyph instead."
But A) I'm no OTF expert, and B) I haven't dissected the font files.
The font files with smart kerning don't contain any ligatures.
It seems they are using glyph substitution tables but I also didn't look in too much detail
