Bug report

Bug summary

Matplotlib seems to fail to apply kerning correctly.

Code for reproduction

figtext(.5, .5, "AV", size=36); figtext(.5, .4, "Te", size=36)

Actual outcome

and similarly for pdf/ps/svg output.

Expected outcome

with mplcairo, one gets:

Note 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.

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: linux
• Matplotlib version: master
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())): agg/mplcairo
• Python version: 37
• Jupyter version (if applicable):
• Other libraries: