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In this technique the letters do not leave their grid box. A wide letter next to a narrow letter will at most push hard up against the edge of its box (usually there has to be white space there so that, e.g. mm doesn’t become one glyph)



The text states that, but then in the Healing Examples section [0], the "m" in "filming" clearly spills over its left border line.

Is that just a poorly drawn/incorrect example graphic?

[0] https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Textu...


It still makes lines with N characters take up the same amount of space, honoring the fundamental characteristic of monotype.




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