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Q. Kerning is a black art I have yet to get my head around. How much is too much? Is it purely visual or can it be mathematical?
A. Kerning is the adjustment of space between two specific characters. While there usually are hundreds of kern pairs built into a font, sometimes you have to make manual kern adjustments -- mostly to display type -- to balance out the negative spaces between some letter combinations.
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