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.
In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies
Damnit, I’m going to see this everywhere now, aren’t I?
Yep.
You’re welcome.
Relevant xkcd
Is kerning the spacing between letters?
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.
Between any typographical characters, but yeah, basically 🙂
Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today
I can’t wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!
Interesting!
Oh wow, thats very interesting!
Neat, the alive ones look way more similar to moths.
Didn’t see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago… Thanks for the info
i will never see butterfly depictions the same again