From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 1
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Kerning - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 1
Kerning
- [Voiceover] Thus far, we've looked at letter spacing and we've looked at tracking. And now drilling down, we come to the most local or the most granular of the three, kerning. Automatic kerning will address most of your issues with body text. But for display type, you may need to adjust the space between characters to give the appearance of equal, optimal spacing. So it's very important to keep in mind that manual kerning really only becomes an issue when you're working with larger type. I'm going to zoom in here on these three words. So in the first example, I've turned kerning off altogether which is not something that you would typically do. But just to make the point that with certain letter combinations, the letters are going to look further apart. The second example has automatic optical kerning applied. And in the third example, which admittedly is a bit too tight, I've actually put my cursor between the letter pairs and added some manual kerning. And I'm doing this by…
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