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Kerning

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.

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Digital typography

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Metal typesetting

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Kerning

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples90
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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Kerning

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related to Kerning in browsers · 17
Kerning → Android Browser, Another CSS, Chrome, CSS3, Edge, Firefox, GSUB, Internet Explorer, OpenType, OpenType's Glyph Substitution Table, OpenType-style GPOS, Opera, Safari, Some, The CSS, The CSS3, There
related to Kerning tables · 11
Kerning → Adobe, Apple’s TrueType, CFF, Glyph Positioning Table, GPOS, In, OpenType, PostScript-based, Since OpenType, The, TrueType
related to Metal typesetting · 8
Kerning → At, Because, French, In, Latin, The, The French, Those
related to Contextual kerning · 7
Kerning → Although, An, Contextual, For, Minion Pro, The, Using
related to Perception · 7
Kerning → CSS1, CSS3, Even, For, Having, Other, The
related to Automatic and manual kerning · 6
Kerning → Automatic, In, Most, Optical, There, With
related to Kerning values · 6
Kerning → Adjustments, Different, In, Most, The, Thus
related to Digital typography · 5
Kerning → AV, In, It, VA, With
related to External links · 4
Kerning → October, Paul, Shaw, The Kerning Game
related to Kerning of subscripts and superscripts · 4
Kerning → Microsoft's, Office, OpenType, While

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Kerningis aprocess of adjusting the space between two specific characters0.90text
Kerningis aconcern in quality typography.An example of a situation that demands contextual kerning in the Minion Pro font is the sequence of three characters f0.90text
Kerningis apositive 1210.90text
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