Unsightly spacing with Calligra font (Christmas card)

Question

I'm writing my Christmas cards again with LaTeX. Last year I used a commercial font with XeTeX. For this year I was thinking about using Calligra as font, but for some reason the output is not nice looking (for me).

This small example

\documentclass[a5paper,11pt,landscape,parskip]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[top=1cm, bottom=1cm, left=1cm, right=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}


\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{calligra}
\setlength{\parindent}{0mm}
\setlength{\parskip}{10mm}
\begin{document}
    \calligra\Huge
    \begin{flushleft}
        Liebe aaaaabbba,

        ich wünsche euch frohe Weihnachten aaa
        aaaa  aaaa a aa aa aaa aaaa aaaa aaa aa aaa 
        und hoffe, dass ich euren Geschmack getroffen habe.

        Viele Grüße\\
        Euer bbaa
    \end{flushleft}

\end{document}

will render like this: I think "Weihnachten" looks like W_eihnachten and the text doesn't look left aligned for me.

Is this normal, or is there some error in my Code? I was thinking about some problem with the ligatures...

Answer 1

The space after "W" seems like missing or improper kerning.

EDIT: I added more corrections (and consider this an ugly hack).

\documentclass[a5paper,11pt,landscape,parskip]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[top=1cm, bottom=1cm, left=1cm, right=1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}


\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{calligra}
\setlength{\parindent}{0mm}
\setlength{\parskip}{10mm}
\begin{document}
    \calligra\Huge
    \begin{flushleft}
        Liebe aaaaabbba,

        ich wünsche euch frohe \kern -0.22em W\kern -0.22em eihnachten aaa
        aaaa  aaaa a aa aa aaa aaaa aaaa aaa aa aaa 
        und hoffe, dass ich euren \kern -0.22em Geschmack getroffen habe.

        \hspace*{0em}\kern -0.33em Viele \kern -0.22em Grüße\\
        \hspace*{0em}\kern -0.33em Euer bbaa
    \end{flushleft}

\end{document}