Kerning is the art of adjusting (usually tightening) the space between individual letter pairs. This selective, manual spacing is done to eliminate awkward spaces and to make words easy to recognize.

Charlotte Demonque is the community manager at Fontyou, a Paris-based online co-creation platform dedicated to typography. This post originally appeared on the Fontyou blog, and has been adapted with ...

Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney If the type that surrounds us clamours for our attention, then the space that ...