Somewhere right now a designer is silently screaming at an example of bad kerning, whether on a sign, website, magazine or menu. Have you ever noticed words where some letters are closer together ...

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.

Google loves their easter eggs and the more subtle the better - if you are a Googler. Search Google for [kerning] and in another browser tab, search for [typography kerning] and you'll see some ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Cavan Images via Getty Images Typography is the art of arranging letters or type in a way ...

We all have those things that just make us cringe with agony. Nails on a chalkboard, aluminum foil touching your fillings—or if you’re a print designer, bad kerning mistakes. When letters are ...

When the February issue of Wired Magazine debuted with a new logo, we explained inside the magazine that it “obeys the Law of Optical Volumes.” We were being coy –many readers went scurrying to ...

Microsoft Word was never intended to be used as a design program for offset printing, so don't be surprised if a commercial printer cringes if you submit a file created in Word. The kerning or spacing ...

Web typography used to be something of an oxymoron, but recent browser advances and tools like Typekit have helped bring web typography out of the dark ages with custom fonts. Thanks to JavaScript ...