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Kerning is the process of making typography more visually effective by adjusting the size of the distance between letters and characters. Although all text can be applied to kerning, in general, kerning is primarily used for large-font typography, such as headings, titles, and so on.
In English typesetting, as the font increases, the distance between letters becomes more pronounced. In particular, the outward divergence of the letters, such as: W,v,y, blank will appear particularly prominent. Such cases also occur on letters with horizontal lines, such as L and T.
As the following illustration shows, the green font is before the kerning, and the pink font is adjusted.
Adobe Illustrator (AI) software provides users with three types of kerning: Automatic, visual, metric-only Roman characters. The default option is "Automatic", where the "automatic" is the metric, please do not confuse this metric with the metric word. If these three options do not achieve satisfactory results, you can also manually enter values to adjust. In a very traditional design school, the technique of kerning still requires keen observation to achieve a visual balance.
Automatic kerning, which is adjusted in metric units, makes up a font kerning table. The Kerning table provides solutions to problems encountered with kerning, such as LA, WA, WE, WO, YO, Tr, Ta, TE, and to, and certainly not limited to this. If you meet one, you'll know! Ai Software writes this in the code, making the word spacing more compact and visually better looking near the kerning. It can be said that a good kerning also means that the adjacent letters look more harmonious.
As shown in the following illustration, the blue font is not adjusted and the purple font is automatically adjusted by the kerning:
As with automatic kerning, visual kerning is set according to the entire font size. But it is not based on a table, but based on a certain glyph to calculate the size of the kerning adjustment.
When the character of a font itself is not ideal, the visual kerning is undoubtedly a good choice. It can also be used in a piece of text consisting of two fonts or two sizes of fonts. This may make you a little confused and don't know how to choose.
Do you encounter when text is italic mode while punctuation is normal? As in the example below, the color Purple is adjusted before it is not adjusted. The use of "visual" kerning can be easily resolved.
Metric words--Roman characters only
Metric--Roman-only kerning options are mainly used in Japanese, but you can also adjust the Latin and katakana characters.
Manual word Spacing Adjustment
The traditional kerning is of course manual. It actually allows you to enter values to adjust. If you have training in kerning, you can certainly make very nice typography! It also allows you to keep a grip on the entire text layout.
To adjust the kerning, open the Characters window panel, select the character you want to adjust, or just insert the cursor between two characters, and then select the appropriate option in the Kerning option, you can also type the value directly in the marquee and press the up and down key to adjust.
If you are not satisfied with the kerning you have just made, you can select the character just now, then select "0" in the kerning option or type 0 directly, and then the character will return to its original position.
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