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[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 240 points 11 months ago (8 children)
[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 101 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damnit, I'm going to see this everywhere now, aren't I?

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 57 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Is kerning the spacing between letters?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

Between any typographical characters, but yeah, basically 🙂

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

It's the visual spacing between letters, which usually involves some letters that have curves or corners to actually not strictly follow the spacing. For example the legs of the letter A might stick out a tiny bit in certain fonts. This gives text a more visually balanced kerning.

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 42 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 39 points 11 months ago

I can't wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago

Oh wow, thats very interesting!

[–] Delzur@vegantheoryclub.org 7 points 11 months ago

Didn't see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago... Thanks for the info

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Neat, the alive ones look way more similar to moths.