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Does Kerning Really Matter?

Learn What is Kerning and How to Properly KERN your Text.

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Kerning is the Space between individual letters or characters and it has to be just RIGHT. Too Tight or too Wide Space needs Adjustment.

There are a lot of Character Pairs that need adjustment and some of them are listed below in the image.

Some of the Kerning Pairs Examples includes "oo", "op", "no", "on", "ll", "nn", "ev", "vx", "wx". You need to always look for these pairs and adjust the spacing between these letters.

While Adjusting Kerning in Adobe Illustrator you need to remember some of these Illustrator shortcuts to help speed up your work. The shortcut is mentioned in the image.

There are 2 types of Kerning adjustment in Illustrator. Optical vs Metric. Metric Kerning is the mechanical calculated Kerning and you don't need to always rely on this. Optical Kerning refers to Kerning adjustment made visually.

The best way to KERN your text is to use the 3 Letter Rule. In this rule, you need to adjust 3 letters at a time starting from Left to Right. The Illustrated Demonstration is in the image.

If you think you have enough GRIP on Kerning then this game will help you gain confidence. Do give it a try.

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