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Kern (Verb)

Remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters).

Verbs of buying, selling, owning.

The typesetter kerned the letters to create a visually appealing arrangement on the page.
To improve the overall appearance, the designer took the time to kern adjacent letters in the company's logo.
The software is designed to automatically kern characters to create a more aesthetically pleasing output.
Kerning the spaces between the letters 'VA' in the graphic was crucial to achieve the desired effect.
In order to create a typographically correct outcome, it is essential to manually kern certain characters in the text.

Furnish with a kern.

Verbs of buying, selling, owning.

The typesetter had to kern some of the letters in the font to achieve a more balanced look.
Adjusting the font settings allowed them to kern the problematic letters for better alignment.
They had to kern the characters in the logo to match the design requirements.
A well-designed font should automatically kern the most common combinations of letters.
The text looked uneven until they kerned some of the letters to fine-tune the alignment.