Kerning inconsistencies with Inter Variable
As part of the initiative to switch to Inter as a default font I noticed that there are quite a few kerning inconsistencies with Inter in particular.
Rendering example with a lowdpi screen with Inter Variable 11 v4.0 and
- gtk 4.14 (pango 1.52.2) from the nightly runtime
- Firefox 124
- Chromium 123
in that order.
I feel like the issue is especially pronounced with words like 'lagomorphs', around the 'o' and 'a', 'skillfully' with wide spacing between 'ill' and 'ful'. 'haypiles' and the 'Ba' in 'Backup'. All these examples seem to me like the distance between the characters is slightly too wide.
See Teams/Design/initiatives#152 and gsettings-desktop-schemas#52 (comment 1994046)