Definitions
Adjust spacing between letters in typography.
Word origin
From Middle English curn, cooren, variant forms of Middle English corn, see English corn and also Dutch kern, Old High German kerno, cherno, Middle High German kerne, kern, German Kern (“core, kernel”), Old Norse kjarni, Icelandic kjarni, Danish kjerne, Swedish kärna (“core, kernel”); see also kernel.
Used in a sentence
“If you need to kern anything beyond the most commonly used pairs, you can use applications software such as Adobe PageMaker to customize pairs.”
“Especially consider kerning if you are printing on a relatively high-resolution printer, such as a 600-dpi (dots per inch) laser printer.”
“Remember, the goal of kerning is to make letter pairs look natural, not necessarily to minimize letterspaces.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Adjust letter space”4 letters
02“Typeface spacing”4 letters
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