Kerning in graphic design isn't the the act of eating corn in the southwest but the spacing of letters. Kerning is sometimes confused with letter spacing, but kerning is the space between two different letters to correct visually uneven spacing. The word 'WAR' below looks visually wrong when typed normally, as the 'W' and 'A' look too far apart. Auto-kerning has been applied to the second word and it looks a lot better, but the third word has been adjusted manually, bringing the 'W' and 'A' much closer together. This kerning makes the word look correct.
It has been proposed that the act of incorrect kerning should be called "keming"
Graphic design puns. Am I right?
To try to get the hang of this interesting new idea I played a game creatively called "
The Kerning Game." The point of the game was to take un kerned words and kern them. I was not good at it. Thank god for auto kern.
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