TTF — Kerning in the Legacy kern Table (same 18 pairs)
The same eighteen kerning pairs, this time in a format-0 legacy kern table with no GPOS at all. Modern shapers ignore kern when GPOS exists and some ignore it entirely, so this twin is how you tell which code path produced a given measurement. Original typeface, free to use.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & ! ? @ # % ( ) — “ ”
12pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
16pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
28pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
40pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Specifications
- Family
- Novus Grotesk P7 Layout
- Units Per Em
- 1000
- Cap Height
- 700
- X Height
- 500
- Wave
- p7
- Seed
- 20260807
- Built With
- fontTools 4.x
- Determinism
- head.created/head.modified pinned to 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z, recalcTimestamp off; outlines are parametric, colour material is seeded
- Usage Rights
- original artwork, free for any use
- Kerning Table
- legacy kern, format 0, coverage horizontal
- Gpos Kerning
- absent
- Pairs
- 18
- Pair Sample
- A/V -80, V/A -80, A/T -70, T/A -70, A/W -60, W/A -60 (+12 more)
- Units
- font design units at 1000 upem
Testing contract
Reference control- Scenario
- Measure 'AV' with this font and with its GPOS twin in the same engine.
- Expected result
- An engine that honours the legacy table narrows 'AV' by 80 units exactly as the GPOS twin does; an engine that ignores kern renders this one unkerned while the twin still kerns.
What is a .ttf file?
TTF (TrueType Font) is a scalable outline font format developed by Apple and Microsoft that uses quadratic Bezier curves and includes hinting for sharp rendering at small sizes. It stores glyph outlines, metrics, and character mappings in a single file. It is one of the most widely supported desktop and web font formats.
How to use this file
Use an example TTF to test font parsers, glyph and metric extraction, text-rendering pipelines, and converters that produce web font formats like WOFF.
How to use this file for testing
“TTF — Kerning in the Legacy kern Table (same 18 pairs)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Editor testing, Metadata testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Font fixtures carry a small documented glyph set across the common wrappers. Test font loaders, subsetting, and @font-face; the specimen preview renders the glyphs the face actually maps.
Code examples
@font-face {
font-family: "Sample";
src: url("NovusLayoutKernLegacy.ttf");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }Related files
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