word

[Norm]

Can anyone plese tell me what is meant by "Kern at 16 pt"
is in word, I have tried the F1 key in word, and their is
no defination about kern

Can anyone help me?

cheers Norm

 

[Greg]

Norm,

Never used it. I found the following explanation in
another post and it seems the fellow knows what he is
talking about:

»Kerning refers to the process of adjusting the spacing
between individual pairs of letters, such as w and a or t
and i. When you check this box, Word will apply kerning
rules to your output. The points and above checkbox
indicates at what point size Word will begin to apply
kerning. Microsoft included this feature because kerning
is more desirable at larger font sizes.

 

[Jay Freedman]

That description is precisely right. To add just a bit more: Most fonts
include kerning information, but some (usually the cheaper ones) don't.
Better fonts contain more kerning pairs; often that means "more expensive"
but sometimes you can find free fonts that are "labors of love" with all the
bells and whistles.

 

[Klaus Linke]

I generally enable kerning. Often kerning is didabled for very small font
sizes (say, < 5 pt).

But for usual font sizes, kerned text looks much better.
Just try "Vo" or "Te" with and without kerning.

It seems to be disabled by default, and it is one of the settings I'd
definitely change. There doesn't seem to be any drawbacks in enabling it.

Regards,
Klaus