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Just played around with the Jupyter notebook this afternoon, and the first cell dies reporting an error from FreeType when it hits the init for the FT_Face:
FT_Exception: FT_Exception: (unknown file format)

Same thing happens in a terminal repl (initially I wondered if it was a problem caused by my browser being run in a snap package, thus downloading the test font to a sandboxed location, but that doesn't seem to be it).

I realize this is rather old code at this point; is it possible that something has changed in the FT wrappers since last year?

FWIW, the CounterSpace func has no problem downloading the fonts. I did, however, notice that FontTools is not listed in the requirements.txt package list, and that also raised an error ... so perhaps the dependencies are still incomplete on my machine....

Should be easy enough to just create a kern table if it doesn't exist.

But the font I threw at it (Noto Serif Regular) uses (and has) GPOS instead of kern; I'm not sure what the best practice is for that situation. E.g., for experimentation, it might be fun to include both tables and fiddle with the results of toggling between them....