Have a look at 5Pin Media in the image above and Psy. The P is too close to the following character.
In other software it renders like this:
Anyone know why this might be the case?
I don’t know why this happens, but your screenshot shows multiple kerning issues, not just after the uppercase P. It looks like all uppercase letters have Problems.
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Yes. The P was just the most horrible of a few bad bits of kerning 
Here it is using drawText instead of TextLayout
Ouch… now the first screenshot looks really horrible
Maybe loading the font into FontForge and reexporting it might help TextLayout somehow.
Kerning? Looks like keming to me.
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hahahahahahahaha (x100)
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I’m guessing TextLayout doesn’t use the native text placement?
Didn’t seem to work - and also has some massive kerning issues (see my other thread!).
Though I think we had to disable the native stuff on MacOS at one point because CoreText crashes a lot !! I’ll double check nothing is modified on Windows tomorrow…
Comic Sans walks into a bar. The barman yells “Get out of here. We don’t serve your type.”
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@jimc This is totally aside from this post (and related ones from the past) - have you considered using Harfbuzz + Freetype for drawing text consistently? I’ve done this with JUCE in the past, converting the Harfbuzz glyph results to juce::Paths and it worked extremely well.
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Might be an option - though we need this to work with Text Editor too.