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Kerning is the spacing between letters. Again, like leading this seems like an obvious one, but still needs careful attention. Consider if your typeface general
by abstractbill 17y ago
Kerning is the spacing between letters. Again, like leading this seems like an obvious one, but still needs careful attention. Consider if your typeface generally needs spacing out more, or if it looks better with tighter kerning.
It sounds to me like the author might actually be talking about tracking, rather than kerning. From wikipedia: "While tracking increases the space between characters evenly, regardless of the characters, kerning increases the space based on character pairs".
- kellishaver 17y agoI think he means kerning, but the way he describes it, he gives the definition of tracking... and if we're talking about this in the context of the web, well, you really can't kern on the web. Adjusting the tracking (with letter-spacing in the CSS) is about all you can do. So really, it depends on the font. If the font has nice ligatures, I think it often looks better left as-is. You wouldn't encounter this problem with proper kerning... which is why I hope that's what he's referring to. :)
- wgj 17y agoThe author is definitely talking about tracking. Kerning has to be done within the font/typeface itself, and yes the standard web fonts in major browsers/OSs are kerned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoBut his example is two letters, rt in Helvetica. Perhaps he's referring to create text as an image for headings (bleurgh!) like in his very ugly background graphic.