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A basic type lesson about kerning

Examples of kerning, or adjusting the space between letters:

Squint to see how far the "a" is from T.

Better kerning is when the "a" tucks under the "T". See how adjusting the tracking on your page makeup program will solve many kerning problems in newsletters. For more sophisticated design projects, graphic designers sometimes kern each letter pair.

Click here for fun facts about kerning.