The adjustment of the horizontal space between individual characters in a line of text. Adjustments in kerning are important in a large display and headline texts, as without kerning words can look awkward. The purpose of kerning is to create a smooth piece of text that people can read across, by putting individual spaces between the letters. kerning can be applied automatically by the desktop publishing program, and some programs allow manual kerning to make adjustments.
On my drafts for my music magazine front cover, I applied the kerning tool to the lettering on the feature headline, which is my artists name.
Leading
This is the amount of space that is added between lines of text to make a document legible. This term comes from the thin lead spacers that printers used to increase space between lines of metal type. Closer leading fits more text on the page, but makes it less legible, where as wide leading make the text fill out the page and so the document is easier to read.
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