kerning
Sign in to savethumb|Kerning brings A and V closer, with their serifs over each other. thumb|right|alt=Top: The word "FLICK" in all caps, typeset in sans-serif. Bottom: With reduced spacing between letters, the L and I appear to merge together into a U, causing the word to instead read as "FUCK".|Poor kerning (referred to informally as keming) may, in a worst-case scenario, result in unwanted words being read. In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the space between two specific characters, or letterforms, in a font. It is not to be confused with tracking, by which spacing is adjusted uniformly o
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13 sectionsContents
- Metal typesetting
- Digital typography
- Kerning values
- Kerning tables
- Automatic and manual kerning
- Contextual kerning
- Kerning of subscripts and superscripts
- Kerning tools
- Kerning in browsers
- Perception
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Kerning brings A and V closer, with their serifs over each other. thumb|right|alt=Top: The word "FLICK" in all caps, typeset in sans-serif. Bottom: With reduced spacing between letters, the L and I appear to merge together into a U, causing the word to instead read as "FUCK".|Poor kerning (referred to informally as keming) may, in a worst-case scenario, result in unwanted words being read. In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the space between two specific characters, or letterforms, in a font. It is not to be confused with tracking, by which spacing is adjusted uniformly over a range of characters.
In a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of characters all have a visually similar area. The term "keming" is sometimes used informally to refer to poor kerning (the letters r and n placed too closely together being easily mistaken for the letter m).