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To: LindyBill who wrote (69119)9/11/2004 1:10:55 AM
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Kerning is yet another topic. Turns out that things look better sometimes if letters don't always have the same space each time they are used. Each font has a set of letter pairs that look better if each letter isn't constrainted to it's own 'box', but has parts overlapping an adjacent letter. It just looks better. An art form. But you can (well, maybe not you or me .. but real artistes) do this simply by 'jogging' the position of the letter right or left by a small amount. Nothing necessarily automatic about it ... it's all in your head.

Example: an i following an f ... the i is usually caressed by f. There are probably no more that about 10 pairs you have to worry about (I seem to remember somebody telling me that ... Pat F? Genius technical typist). Something about equal visual area?

Guess not many remember manually setting type.

Now ligature is another matter ... I think you really need something special for that. (I think the super-'th' was a ligature, but copy was so bad ... )
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