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To: R2O who wrote (69130)	9/11/2004 1:15:55 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

Kerning matters more the larger the font. I do remember hand set metal type but never did it myself. I worked in shops that did. I used to set headlines using a device that had an entire strip of letters on something like acetate, you'd move the strip back and forth, and with your foot activate a light. There were little dots for kerning the larger letters, you'd use one dot to reduce the space, one to widen it. I simply cannot remember, was each metal type letter a different width, or were there only a few widths? I believe there was more than one width. I seem to remember how tiny the "i"s were compared to the "w"s.