6 January 2015

Useful Pro Tips On Font Kerning For ‘Achieving Typographic Perfection’



“Kerning is about controlling the spaces between letters - that includes those between words”



After its popular post on useful typography tricks, Creative Bloq is back with another article that dishes out ten pieces of pro advice that would help you become more skilled at the fine art of font kerning.



Written by Meryem Meg and Brian Hoff, this post features simple, practical tips to “achieving typographic perfection”—for instance, it is important to note the difference between kerning and tracking, which is “about uniform spacing across a text selection”.



This article also points the reader to some great resources on typography in general and kerning in particular—read it in its entirety here.



Which of these kerning tips do you find the most useful?





“Settle on your type choices early on and everything will flow naturally from there”





“Some letters don't kern as well as others”



[via Creative Bloq]