[Tex/LaTex] Is microtype compatible (and effective) with a font like Calibri

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Is microtype compatible (and effective) with a font like Calibri ?

For details on microtype, see also here and here.

Edit

  • With "compatible" I mean error-message-free.
  • With "effective" I mean that one would see a markedly positive difference when using microtype: that it just looks a lot better!

Best Answer

First of all, microtype will never issue an error message when it encounters a font that it doesn't know about, so it is always "compatible" in your sense.

With regards to "effective": For protrusion of unknown fonts (Calibri being one of them), microtype will use fallback settings and write an info about this in the log file. These fallback settings (in microtype.cfg) are quite conservative and contain protrusion settings only for the characters which are most likely to require protrusion (but this is still more than what the settings from luaotfload contain, which actually only protrude the punctuation characters). This should give reasonable results in most cases. Of course, it is possible, and probably preferable, to create a proper configuration file for the font in question, but this requires some time and a good eye.

With expansion the situation is even better, as it doesn't require dedicated font settings, and will just work, even for unknown fonts.

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