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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"kerning seems generally wrong","articleBody":"\u003c!--To help us understand and resolve your issue, please fill out the form to the best of your ability.--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--You can feel free to delete the sections that do not apply.--\u003e\r\n\r\n### Bug report\r\n\r\n**Bug summary**\r\n\r\nMatplotlib seems to fail to apply kerning correctly.\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A minimum code snippet required to reproduce the bug.\r\nPlease make sure to minimize the number of dependencies required, and provide\r\nany necessary plotted data.\r\nAvoid using threads, as Matplotlib is (explicitly) not thread-safe.--\u003e\r\n\r\n```python\r\nfigtext(.5, .5, \"AV\", size=36); figtext(.5, .4, \"Te\", size=36)\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n\r\n![test](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1322974/61868122-02d28c80-aed9-11e9-9139-63c4b26c9a43.png)\r\nand similarly for pdf/ps/svg output.\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n\r\nwith mplcairo, one gets:\r\n![cairo](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1322974/61868151-0ebe4e80-aed9-11e9-8b3b-758f2ccbd382.png)\r\n\r\nNote that it's not that matplotlib doesn't apply kerning at all -- there is definitely code a bit everywhere to apply it, but it looks like we're getting wrong values.  See also https://matplotlib.org/gallery/misc/font_indexing.html which shows that get_kerning apparently returns 0 when it shouldn't.\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n\u003c!--Please specify your platform and versions of the relevant libraries you are using:--\u003e\r\n  * Operating system: linux\r\n  * Matplotlib version: master\r\n  * Matplotlib backend (`print(matplotlib.get_backend())`): agg/mplcairo\r\n  * Python version: 37\r\n  * Jupyter version (if applicable):\r\n  * Other libraries: \r\n\r\n\u003c!--Please tell us how you installed matplotlib and python e.g., from source, pip, conda--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--If you installed from conda, please specify which channel you used if not the default--\u003e\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/anntzer","@type":"Person","name":"anntzer"},"datePublished":"2019-07-25T10:40:27.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/14887/matplotlib/issues/14887"}