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in my first Murphy class I studied the work of Edward Johnston who is called the father of modern calligraphy he said something that I still remember and this is the perfect time to right with you the task before us is simple to make beautiful letters and to arrange them well now both parts of that statement are important to any good resign unless you're a type designer you don't have to worry about the first part making beautiful letters but as a designer you do have to arrange the letters that's where spacing comes in Kearney is the adjustment of the spaces between two specific letters it's different from tracking which is adjustment of the spaces between a group of letters the goal of kerning is to create a consistent rhythm of space between characters which helps Rita bill text sizes you don't have to adjust the Kearney because the type designer has already done that for you there are thousands of carefully calculated this is between every possible letter combination already built into a typeface by its creator these are called kerning pairs but a larger sizes those car tears don't work as well so the spaces between letters at display sizes often need manual kerning these are tiny but critical adjustments and there are no mathematical formulas to create a consistent rhythm of space and the appearance of equal spaces between letters here are some general guidelines for tourney  the narrowest space will be between two round sided letters because the space curves away at the top and bottom creating the appearance more space between the letters the next widest space will be between a straight side and a round side the space around the curves away but the straight side doesn't and the next widest space will be between two straight-sided letters there are also letters that have open sides and some of it have diagonal size again the idea is to create the appearance of even spacing between letters you have two spaces between letters are containers of water you want every space between two letters to look as if it holds the same amount of water here are some common examples of letter combinations that will often need kerning at larger sizes  open sided letters or diagonal letters have a kind of extra space with in or around them and Kernan compensates for that extra space  your goal is to adjust the spaces between turn the letters to make them appear even pretty letters with seraphs is a bit trickier because the seraphs won't let us get the letters as close together a Sans serif here's one example every set of letters is different to judge where to add or subtract space you have to look at the whole headline or set of letters and see what is the most difficult pairing and then work around that by kerning our letters we want the eye to see them evenly spaced in way that is optically correct it's about creating what looks right not necessarily what's mechanically correct these are small but critical adjustments the task of arranging beautiful letters isn't always simple but with these basic guidelines and some practice you'll be on your way to beautiful turn tight  a membership to lynda.com unlocks this entire course and hundreds of others visit lynda.com to learn more

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