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At 12:03 AM 4/17/2001, Kris Kirby wrote:

>What is kerning?

Kerning is the adjustment of the spacing between characters.
The most aesthetically pleasing spacing -- and the one that
yields the most legible text -- usuall depends on what
characters they are and what order they're in, as well as
the typeface. (It scales, of course, with font size.)

--Brett


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