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Please don’t fix fonts with letter spacing and other hacks. Fonts are engineered with specific fitting (even before kerning pairs are added) and this would just make things worse.

You can however continue to use open source fonts! There is nothing wrong with that. There are many amazing free fonts out there that compete with commercial alternatives.

But to say that Fonts don’t add any value is preposterous.

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I didn't mention fixing anywhere. Having spent a portion of my career as a graphic designer, letter spacing / kerning was used in literally every print piece I ever made, so to suggest they are to be used as provided is preposterous.

You just reminded me of https://type.method.ac/ where everyone can quickly check their font kerning skills against a standard. Fun for us developers!

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