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What do you mean by kerning?
In typography, kerning is defined as the adjustment of space between two individual letters. It’s also not an uncommon thing to neglect when you’re reaching the end of a grueling deadline. Your clients may not know what kerning is, but they’ll know something’s amiss when their design has poorly kerned type.
What is the difference between Kerning and spacing?
Here’s the difference: Letter-spacing is the process of simultaneously adjusting the overall space between groups of letters. Kerning is the process of adjusting space between specific letter pairs to improve legibility in words that have inconsistent spacing, which makes the text look awkward and unprofessional.
Why does kerning make letters look evenly spaced?
The point of kerning is to make everything look evenly spaced—but that doesn’t always mean the letters are actually spaced out evenly. Sometimes putting the exact same amount of space between all of your letters actually creates an unequal look.
What’s the difference between kerning and equal space?
Kerning isn’t a mathematically equal amount of space, it’s a perceived equal amount of space between letters according to the human eye. Once common kerning technique is to visualize and sand filling the spaces between the letters, and trying to make the volumes of sand equal.
What happens when you make a kerning mistake?
Nails on a chalkboard, aluminum foil touching your fillings—or if you’re a print designer, bad kerning mistakes. When letters are improperly spaced, it can ruin the look of your design.
Why is kerning so bad in graphic design?
The worst kerning is usually the result of not kerning at all, trusting that the typographer and your graphic design software both know what they’re doing. A lot of times you get lucky—but there’s no reason to leave the success of your design up to chance.