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  2. Kerning - Wikipedia

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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".

  3. Letter spacing - Wikipedia

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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".

  4. Leading - Wikipedia

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    Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with 50% leading: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of ...

  5. Legibility - Wikipedia

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    Legibility is the ease with which a reader can decode symbols. In addition to written language, it can also refer to behaviour [1] or architecture, [2] for example. From the perspective of communication research, it can be described as a measure of the permeability of a communication channel.

  6. Baseline (typography) - Wikipedia

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    The vertical distance of the base lines of consecutive lines in a paragraph is also known as line height or leading, although the latter can also refer to the baseline distance minus the font size. Northern Brahmic scripts have a characteristic hanging baseline; the letters are aligned to the top of the writing line, marked by an overbar , with ...

  7. Word spacing - Wikipedia

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    Word spacing in typography is space between words, as contrasted with letter-spacing (space between letters of words) and sentence spacing (space between sentences). ). Typographers may modify the spacing of letters or words in a body of type to aid readability and copy fit, or for aesth

  8. Typography - Wikipedia

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    Spacing and kerning, size-specific spacing, x-height and vertical proportions, character variation, width, weight, and contrast, [42] are several techniques that are necessary to be taken into consideration when thinking about the appropriateness of specific typefaces or creating them. When placing two or more differing and/or contrasting fonts ...

  9. Glossary of journalism - Wikipedia

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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.