kerning

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Take a look at the kerning, the space between the individual letters, and the leading, the space between baselines of text.

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  • It allows fine-grain control over typographic attributes like leading and kerning, and has two modes: linear is displayed in the screenshot at right; check the web site to see what rotary looks like (the video is worth more words than I'm willing to type).There's also an iPhone app, which I hope gets released eventually through iTunes.
  • The software writers fiddle with the kerning, which is the spacing between individual letters, as opposed to the spacing between words. —  Without Fail by Lee Child
  • Printers learned much since 1439 that helps people read and understand (fonts, kerning, line spacing, white space, margins, indents, paragraph spacing, and much else). —  RealClimate
  • Automatic kerning is complemented by the ability to create and save custom kerning pairs for any font on your system. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • If you aren\\\'t up to creating your own font from scratch, you can import an existing font and modify it by changing letter shapes, kerning, tracking, etc. —  Fulldls.com
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