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There are many excellent free fonts, but depending on the font, it is also possible that the spacing between letters becomes unnatural when arranging letters. In such a case, adjust the character ...

Charlotte Demonque is the community manager at Fontyou, a Paris-based online co-creation platform dedicated to typography. This post originally appeared on the Fontyou blog, and has been adapted with ...

Kerning is the art of adjusting (usually tightening) the space between individual letter pairs. This selective, manual spacing is done to eliminate awkward spaces and to make words easy to recognize.

In "Tweaking Text in Scribus," I briefly described the tools available for manipulating text in Scribus. Now, it's time to really get your typographic geek on, and look in greater detail at how to ...

Nothing rankles designers more than bad kerning. The spacing between letters can make or break text and logos, and if it's either too big or too small – or worse, a combination of both – the results ...

I won’t lie: “The kerning game” isn’t exactly going to give Halo a run for its money in terms of excitement. Basically you just click and drag letterforms on a baseline until you think they look right ...