Definitions
Examples
“Did the claim of "kerning" (?) explain where the hell George Bush was, during his TANG time?”
“Flash Professional CS5 now has a new text manipulation system dubbed the Text Layout Framework, built to add more advanced features such as kerning, tracking, and multiple columns.”
“RollingCredits features advanced typographic control such as kerning and letter spacing, flexible line spacing, tabs and indents, find and replace, and will even check your spelling while you type.”
“This adds advanced typographic control over features such as kerning, ligatures and tracking.”
“Word has no real typesetting capabilities, the kerning sucks, and so forth.”
“On the other hand, LaTeX does autohyphenation, handles line spacing and length far better than Word does, and carefully considers kerning.”
“Oh, and my colleagues and I had great fun loudly pointing out all the grammar and kerning errors in the news ticker while waiting for the food … as News Corp employees lined up to place their order at the Schnitzel & Things Truck.”
“Falstaff, this is a crowd that falsely claimed the kerning on a valid military document was impossible, despite IBM's own admission that not only was that typeface available when Bush served in the TANG, it was a common typeface and usually included in the purchase of Selectric typewriters.”
Rush wasnt punked, he wasnt pwned. He was just doing what he does.
“Maybe my opinion is skewed because I work in fantasy, but I really think that since the mid-90s we've been giving texts more leading between lines and slightly bigger font sizes (not to mention nicer fonts that may take up more kerning space than your old standards).”
“This is something we actually studied at Simmons in my publishing class -- we looked at a number of books and measured font size, kerning, and evaluated the design, and from that (very small sample size) I found that most newer books have much more generous design parameters.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kerning’.
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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words to know
proselytising, proprioception, qualia, indelibly, eristic, mellifluous, perspicacious, concilience, inure, tendentiousness, topos, parochial and 118 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Interesting, Very Interesting!
fuflun, madeupical, neologism, kerning, interrobang, somnambulist, jejune, juxtaposition, tawdry, vorpal, snickersnee, lurve and 4 more...
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JakeMV's Words
duffel, schadenfreude, boisterous, belligerent, stinky, bric-a-brac, dong, flagellum, splat, janky, brash, hubris and 37 more...
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MadShrubbery's Words
sparkle, shimmer, enthralled, alliteration, gasoline, shrubbery, sensation, white, sapphire, crimson, emerald, pearl and 29 more...
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freshasspearmint's Words
spaniard, fantastic, tremendous, pachyderm, colloquial, sartorius, brouhaha, bourgogne, mandalay, lonelily, fortuitous, rhinoplasty and 35 more...
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Designer Words
Not words that were designed, but words used by designers.
pagination, margin, widow, orphan, kerning, tracking, spread, pantone, logo, press, prepress, proof and 10 more...
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word set7
brownie wings, apostasy, agents provocateurs, de rigueur, epiphenomenonal, gregorian calendar, morganatic, geomagnetic storm, syncopated, oppositionist, civil twilight, topologically and 75 more...
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from work
fullwidth, masculine ordinal..., re-key, glyph, logical segment, risk-based, syntactic, dossier, pseudotranslation, Unicode, ASCII, redlines and 65 more...
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mikefats's Words
proletariat, bamboozle, cyan, kerning, hematoma, sordid, crass, ligature, ogonek, doppelganger, philistine, encumbent and 3 more...
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words that give me pleasure
shoe, 天下, rhythm, verbing, 屌, 國, scepticism, ameliorate, neologism, patata, �?負, nigger and 40 more...
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space
plenum, exergue, ramage, berth, lacuna, swath, hollow, gap, expanse, between, margin, spandrel and 88 more...
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strangeknight's Words
callipygous, callipygian, minatory, gallimaufry, suppurate, consanguinity, coarctation, concinnity, apical, inimical, manichaean, intrigant and 68 more...
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kerning's Words
kerning, scrumptious, illuminating, veranda, luminous, finagle, pomegranate, clementine
Tweets
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jodi See the kerning game to try your hand at adjusting typesetting. Oct 28, 2011
IndiaAmos "In typesetting, kerning refers to the process of subtracting space between specific pairs of characters so that the overall letterspacing appears to be even." (http://www.typographicdesign4e.com/resources_glossary.html#anchor-w) Feb 25, 2009
npydyuan see also keming. Feb 21, 2008