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Kerning. Knowledge about kerning will give a deeper understanding of type. However, forget about kerning for now, spend your time on other things. It's much more important to properly space your characters.
字距調(diào)整的知識(shí)會(huì)讓你對(duì)字體的理解更進(jìn)一步。但我們現(xiàn)在先暫時(shí)把它忘記，先花點(diǎn)時(shí)間看看另外的東西。如果你想正確的設(shè)置字符間距，這個(gè)要重要得多。
A kerning pair is a technical issue for optical reasons. Simply said: when one certain character is followed by another character you can define a different space in between these two characters. This space can vary from the the normal spacing (right sidebearing of the first character + left sidebearing of the second character). The difference can be positive or negative; you can add more space for a certain combination or you can reduce the space. A kerning pair can technically be implemented in a digital font file.
字距配對(duì)（kerning pair）是一種因視覺(jué)需要而做的技術(shù)處理。簡(jiǎn)單說(shuō)，在兩個(gè)特定的字符連排的時(shí)候，你可以為它們單獨(dú)指定與眾不同的字符間距。這個(gè)間距可以不同于標(biāo)準(zhǔn)間距（前一個(gè)字符的右部安全空間+后一個(gè)字符的左部安全空間）。這個(gè)間距可以是正的也可以是負(fù)的，你可以為某個(gè)字符對(duì)設(shè)置更多或更少的空間。數(shù)字化的字庫(kù)文件中可以實(shí)現(xiàn)這種字距配對(duì)。
In some cases kerning is inevitable and necessary. When a capital 'A' is followed by a lowercase 'v', a big white space will appear which cannot be solved by adapting the spacing of the characters. Changing the spacing would mess it up when they would be combined with other characters again. For this occasion a kerning pair is needed (see drawing). In the sketch you only see some examples where the kerning pair is negative; reducing space. But you can also imagine a positive kerning pair when a 'f' is followed by a bracket for example; "f)". More space has to be added to avoid those characters overlapping eachother.
有些場(chǎng)合這種字距調(diào)整是必不可少的。當(dāng)一個(gè)大寫(xiě)A后面跟隨一個(gè)小寫(xiě)v的時(shí)候，兩個(gè)字符間就會(huì)出現(xiàn)巨大的白空間，這是普通的字符間距所無(wú)法解決的。如果改變它們的間距，它們和其他字母連排的時(shí)候就會(huì)擠成一團(tuán)。這時(shí)候就需要字距配對(duì)來(lái)處理了（如圖）。圖中只出現(xiàn)了字距配對(duì)為負(fù)的例子——縮減空間。但你可以想象一個(gè)字距配對(duì)為正的例子：一個(gè)小寫(xiě)f后跟隨一個(gè)括號(hào)，例如：“f)”。這時(shí)候就需要加入更多的間距以避免兩個(gè)字符重疊在一起。
英文原文
本文鏈接：http://www.95time.cn/design/doc/2007/5160.asp 
出處：藍(lán)色理想
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