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Kerning contrasted with tracking (letter-spacing): with spacing the "kerning perception" is lost. While tracking adjusts the space between characters evenly, regardless of the characters, kerning adjusts the space based on character pairs. There is strong kerning between the "V" and the "A", and no kerning between the "S" and the "T".
Kerning contrasted with tracking (letter spacing): with spacing the "kerning perception" is lost. While tracking adjusts the space between characters evenly, regardless of the characters, kerning adjusts the space based on character pairs. There is strong kerning between the "V" and the "A" and no kerning between the "S" and the "T".
Kerning (or ‘kerned’) refers to an ancient Somerset term for ‘thickening’ predominantly used in relation to dairy products. The word has historically been used to refer to the processes around curdling., [1] churning, [2] coagulating [3] or thickening milk, and its origins have been thought to be linked to the verb, ‘to churn’ - which translates to ‘kernen’ in German, ‘karnen ...
The major changes to the Times Roman typeface itself were a reduction in the slope of italic characters to 12 degrees from 16 degrees, so as to reduce the need for kerning, and a change in the form of italic 'v' and 'w' so that italic 'v' could be more easily distinguished from a Greek nu. [77]
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kerning A way of setting printed type so that the space between immediately adjacent characters is adjusted to appear uniform, at the same time reducing the amount of horizontal space they require. kicker 1. An entertaining, amusing, or offbeat story used to balance a page or bulletin of otherwise serious news. [1] 2.
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The space between the W and A does not match with the space between the A and R in the manually kerned version. The longer I look at the auto kerned version, the more I find that something inbetween would be good. The auto-kerned version does not look perfectly "connected" whereas the manually kerned version is a bit "inhomogenous".