Kerning
Kerning (English: kerning) is a technique to adjust the spacing (Aki) between letters of proportional fonts, mainly in European text formatting. When kerning is not performed, unnatural blanks are caused between letters, whereas in properly kerning fonts, the area of blank space between character surfaces is almost even. Currently, DTP has been popularized, it is often done on typesetting software, but in the past, it was necessary to perform special processing for typographic characters or work to read it as character stuffing with cut and paste. Currently this word or stuffed character (temmoji) is sometimes used as a translated word for kerning, but sometimes strictly distinguishes between kerning and character stuffing. In English, it is sometimes called mortising derived from the name of process of processing type (sometimes: hollowing out, opening mortar). ...