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.
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SeekPie@lemm.ee 2 months agoIs kerning the spacing between the letters?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Between any typographical characters, but yeah, basically 🙂