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Meaning of "kerning" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF KERNING

kerning  [ˈkɜːnɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KERNING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kerning is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KERNING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kerning

In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual letter forms, while tracking adjusts spacing uniformly over a range of characters. In a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of characters all have a visually similar area. The related term kern denotes a part of a type letter that overhangs the edge of the type block.

Definition of kerning in the English dictionary

The definition of kerning in the dictionary is the adjustment of space between the letters of words to improve the appearance of text matter.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KERNING


afterburning
ˈɑːftəˌbɜːnɪŋ
burning
ˈbɜːnɪŋ
churning
ˈtʃɜːnɪŋ
coal-burning
ˈkəʊlbɜːnɪŋ
concerning
kənˈsɜːnɪŋ
discerning
dɪˈsɜːnɪŋ
ferning
ˈfɜːnɪŋ
gut-churning
ˈɡʌtˌtʃɜːnɪŋ
inburning
ɪnˈbɜːnɪŋ
interest-earning
ˈɪntrəstˌɜːnɪŋ
learning
ˈlɜːnɪŋ
nonearning
nɒnˈɜːnɪŋ
oil-burning
ˈɔɪlˌbɜːnɪŋ
sleep-learning
ˈsliːpˌlɜːnɪŋ
slow-burning
ˈsləʊˌbɜːnɪŋ
turning
ˈtɜːnɪŋ
undiscerning
ˌʌndɪˈsɜːnɪŋ
unreturning
ˌʌnrɪˈtɜːnɪŋ
urning
ˈɜːnɪŋ
yearning
ˈjɜːnɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KERNING

kermesite
kermis
kern
kerne
kernel
kernel-less
kernelled
kernelling
kernelly
kernicterus
kernish
kernite
kernmantel rope
kero
kerogen
kerosene
kerosene lamp
kerosine
Kerouac
kerplunk

WORDS THAT END LIKE KERNING

beginning
blended learning
book-learning
distance learning
e-learning
early-morning
early warning
early-warning
good morning
governing
health warning
lifelong learning
machine learning
morning
mourning
patterning
seat of learning
storm warning
the top of the morning
warning
yesterday morning

Synonyms and antonyms of kerning in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kerning» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KERNING

Find out the translation of kerning to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kerning from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kerning» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

字距
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kerning
570 millions of speakers

English

kerning
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रिक्ति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تقنين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кернинг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

kerning
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কার্নিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crénage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerning
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kerning
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カーニング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

커닝
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kerning
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kerning
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வளைவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कर्नांग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

karakter aralığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

crenatura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kerning
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кернинг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kerning
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

kerning
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Kerning
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kerning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kerning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kerning

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KERNING»

The term «kerning» is regularly used and occupies the 84.358 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KERNING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «kerning» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «kerning» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kerning

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KERNING»

Discover the use of kerning in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kerning and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life Kerning: Creative Ways to Fine Tune Your Perspective on ...
Using insights and observations from both the creative and professional world, this book guides you in determining what you're passionate about, and then how to keep those passions in the forefront of your life and career.
Justin Ahrens, 2011
2
Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4
Getting just the right kerning is critical when you're working with logos and headlines; it can often mean the difference between text that is easy to read and text that is difficult to understand. Kerning is usually set in a typeface automatically and ...
Mordy Golding, 2008
3
Logo, Font & Lettering Bible
KERNING The goal, as already stressed, is to first space our letters evenly and methodically to avoid too much kerning, then to kern all remaining incorrigible pairs. The most particularly troublesome characters— those with parts that slope or ...
Leslie Cabarga, 2004
4
Real World Adobe InDesign CC
Figure 4-12 How You Can Tell It's Automatic Kerning Tracking In general, the kerning applied by InDesign when you use the Optical kerning method looks looser than that applied by the Metrics kerning method. That's okay—once you've  ...
Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner, Bob Bringhurst, 2013
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Illustrator CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart ...
Kerning is the addition or removal of space between pairs of adjacent characters. Kerning values for specific character pairs (e.g., an uppercase “T” next to a lowercase “a”) are built into all fonts. The builtin kerning values are usually suitable ...
Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, 2009
6
Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript
In contrast with applications such as Ventura and Quark, InDesign has no kerning editor to adjust poorly kerned character pairs and character pairs that the font designer hadn't bothered to kern at all. If you take your spacing seriously, you ...
Peter Kahrel, 2009
7
Mastering InDesign CS5 for Print Design and Production
Metric Kerning Professional typeface designers usually include kerning pairs in text fonts or include instructions to a typesetting application about how close together certain pairings of glyphs should be placed. Take, for instance, VA. Because ...
Pariah S. Burke, 2010
8
QuarkXPress 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
To help with this problem, fonts have hundreds of built-in kerning pairs— character duos that are nudged together slightly. To turn this pair kerning on, go to Quark XPress (Edit, in Windows) > Preferences > Print Layout > Character, and check ...
Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, 2006
9
Exploring Adobe InDesign CS5
Adjust Character Spacing with Manual Kerning Closely related to tracking is kerning. Kerning is the horizontal spacing between two characters only. You should kern letter pairs when spacing between characters is too wide or too narrow.
Terry Rydberg, 2010
10
InDesign CS5 Bible
The legibility of a block of text depends as much on the space around it, called White space, as it does on the readability of the font. InDesign offers two ways to adjust the space between characters — kerning and tracking — as well one way to ...
Galen Gruman, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KERNING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kerning is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Longway Planetarium to hold scavenger hunt
... Solid Metal Tattoo, My Sister & Me consignment store, Kerning Advertising, Flint Ignition, RW Accounting and anonymous donors. «Burtonview, Jul 15»
2
How to Install the Kindle Bookerly Font on your Kobo
It is the first typeface designed for the Kindle for scratch and solves a longstanding problems with text justification, kerning, drop caps, image ... «Good E-Reader, Jul 15»
3
How graphic designers photoshopped images before Photoshop …
And if you didn't like the kerning they gave you, you had to cut them up yourself. Good times! Here's Lynda.com showing how things were done ... «Gizmodo, Jul 15»
4
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Review (2015) – Middle child syndrome
If you're a fan of the minutiae of typesetting, you'll be excited to find that Amazon is also improving things like kerning and ligatures: the spaces ... «SlashGear, Jul 15»
5
Konica Minolta Announces New Sophisticated Variable Data …
All features supported by InDesign is supported by EngageIT, including type on a curve, runarounds, multi-page composition, kerning, tracking, ... «IT News Online, Jul 15»
6
Kindle Paperwhite (2015) review: The best value e-reader
The updated typesetting engine may make more difference to your reading. This promises enhanced support for hyphenation, justification, kerning and ligatures, ... «Alphr, Jul 15»
7
10 do's and don'ts of UI and UX design
Focus on the typography of your site to ensure issues such as line length, line height, kerning, and font choice doesn't pose issues for ... «The Next Web, Jul 15»
8
Google's Free Website Builder Makes It Dead Simple To Implement …
That's because Google is going steps beyond dictating best design standards and practices about white space and kerning, and delving into ... «Co.Design, Jul 15»
9
Facebook's new logo is even more generic than the old one
Back-lit on a Samsung Galaxy or an iPhone, the new clearer Facebook lettering with more white space and different kerning does show up ... «iFreePress.com, Jul 15»
10
Facebook unveils new logo in stunning change for fans of the letter A
... Facebook made a similarly subtle and fastidious change to its logo this week, altering the kerning of its letters and switching out the 'a' for a ... «The Independent, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Kerning [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/kerning>. Apr 2024 ».
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