Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Making type beautiful with tracking and kerning

A well-designed graphic design piece has beautiful typography which is well incorporated with an image or illustration. Sometimes, when we position our text on the page, we notice that characters are not spaced well, especially in headlines. When we use a very large point size for our type, it throws off the spacing between the letters. We can use kerning to solve this problem!

What's the difference between tracking and kerning?
Watch this quick YouTube clip to find out!



Take a minute to play the kerning game below, and you can quickly get the hang of it:
http://type.method.ac/

Examples of bad kerning:









Examples of good kerning:


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