Zapf Chancery and placing a k next to a g

Question

So, I was playing with fonts and found one really nice. It's just that I ran into trouble trying to write the word Background (quite a common word, eh?) using it. The k and the g extend into each other. And if I add space between them I have to add very much space indeed. (actually way too much) Are there more variants of the characters hidden somewhere or is this a case of broken-by-design? (It can't be, can it?)

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\LARGE \fontfamily{pzc}\selectfont Background
\end{document}

Answer 1

You might prefer the way the tgchorus font does this. It is based on chancery. I'm not sure it's any better really. The realy best option would be proper ligatures. But for a script font like these, you'd need a lot of ligatures...

Edit

So I recently found this article by Douglas Hofstadter about metafont (among other things) and on p.42 (figure 14) at the bottom there is all the Zapf Chancery glyphs. These include, among others, a "K" without the fancy tail. I wonder if this is in the TeX version of the font. Because if so, then it's exactly what you'd need. I don't know how to access the alternative versions though... I wonder if there is a mechanism like \varphi for normal letters...

Edit 2

Having worked out how to print the font table of Zapf Chancery, it looks like it doesn't contain the less swishy "K". Nor does tgchorus...