Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Corn-bearing.
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- verb Present participle of
kern .
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Examples
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Did the claim of "kerning" (?) explain where the hell George Bush was, during his TANG time?
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant 2009
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Did the claim of "kerning" (?) explain where the hell George Bush was, during his TANG time?
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant 2009
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RollingCredits features advanced typographic control such as kerning and letter spacing, flexible line spacing, tabs and indents, find and replace, and will even check your spelling while you type.
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This adds advanced typographic control over features such as kerning, ligatures and tracking.
PC PRO 2010
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Flash Professional CS5 now has a new text manipulation system dubbed the Text Layout Framework, built to add more advanced features such as kerning, tracking, and multiple columns.
Icrontic 2010
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Oh, and my colleagues and I had great fun loudly pointing out all the grammar and kerning errors in the news ticker while waiting for the food … as News Corp employees lined up to place their order at the Schnitzel & Things Truck.
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Falstaff, this is a crowd that falsely claimed the kerning on a valid military document was impossible, despite IBM's own admission that not only was that typeface available when Bush served in the TANG, it was a common typeface and usually included in the purchase of Selectric typewriters.
Rush wasnt punked, he wasnt pwned. He was just doing what he does. 2009
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Maybe my opinion is skewed because I work in fantasy, but I really think that since the mid-90s we've been giving texts more leading between lines and slightly bigger font sizes (not to mention nicer fonts that may take up more kerning space than your old standards).
It's Not How Long You Make It, Is It? Roger Sutton 2009
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Word has no real typesetting capabilities, the kerning sucks, and so forth.
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On the other hand, LaTeX does autohyphenation, handles line spacing and length far better than Word does, and carefully considers kerning.
npydyuan commented on the word kerning
see also keming.
February 21, 2008
IndiaAmos commented on the word kerning
"In typesetting, kerning refers to the process of subtracting space between specific pairs of characters so that the overall letterspacing appears to be even." (http://www.typographicdesign4e.com/resources_glossary.html#anchor-w)
February 26, 2009
jodi commented on the word kerning
See the kerning game to try your hand at adjusting typesetting.
October 28, 2011