What a kerning!

A presentation at Tech Talk @ Tagesspiegel in February 2022 in by Gunnar Bittersmann

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Space: the final frontier. Above us. Around us. Within us. We have always looked to the stars to discover who we are. — Michael Burnham in Star Trek: Discovery S2:E1

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Space: the final frontier. Above us. Around us. Within us. We have always looked to the stars to discover who we are. — Michael Burnham in Star Trek: Discovery S2:E1

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Space: the final frontier. Above us. Around us. Within us. We have always looked to the stars to discover who we are. — Michael Burnham in Star Trek: Discovery S2:E1

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What a kerning!

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Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-58117-0010 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

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kern

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SMALL CAPS CAPS TO SMALL CAPS

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kerning Unterschneidung zwischen bestimmten Zeichenpaaren

tracking letter spacing character spacing Spationierung zwischen allen Zeichen

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leam to kem

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kerning ≠ letter spacing

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RegExp ≠ regular expression

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charset ≠ character set

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Don’t speak falsely now! — Jimi Hendrix, All Along the Watchtower

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Don’t speak falsely now! — Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower

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There is a whole galaxy out there full of people who will reach for you. You have to let them. Reach for them. — Michael Burnham to Spock in Star Trek: Discovery S2:E14/S3:E7