It’s the visual spacing between letters, which usually involves some letters that have curves or corners to actually not strictly follow the spacing. For example the legs of the letter A might stick out a tiny bit in certain fonts. This gives text a more visually balanced kerning.
SeekPie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Is kerning the spacing between the letters?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Between any typographical characters, but yeah, basically 🙂
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It’s the visual spacing between letters, which usually involves some letters that have curves or corners to actually not strictly follow the spacing. For example the legs of the letter A might stick out a tiny bit in certain fonts. This gives text a more visually balanced kerning.