The Commit Mono font has a feature that it calls “smart kerning”. Monaspace has a similar feature that it calls “texture healing.” Characters are moved around slightly, or swapped out for a slightly larger or smaller character to even out the spacing, for example, when a wide character like an ‘m’ is followed by a narrow character like an ‘l’.

The effect looks nice on their web sites. It worked in VSCode, but not in Emacs. The “smart kerning” / “texture healing” features did not seem to be activated when I tried the fonts in Emacs.

How would I get this to work in Emacs? The Monaspace docs say you have to add “‘calt’” to “editor.ligatures” in the VSCode Settings. Commit Mono just worked without changing the settings.

I might end up hating the moving around, but I’d have to try it for a few hours to see. I’m just not sure how to set that up in Emacs, or if Emacs supports that sort of thing.