Digitally produced via Photoshop or pre produced fonts or using Kerning Pairs this provides OneType format adds the possibility class based Kerning, Auto kerning some typographic programs feature this, kerning tools, Kerning in browsers. The corner was allowed for character features, to reach in to the area normally taken up by characters or text. Such notched pieces where only set against one another for metal typesetting’s, not against unnotched ones which had straight sides. This can be professed metal typesetting’s and also digital typesetting’s the word kern is a cognate of a corner, in the days when type was cast metal, a corner was notched to consistent heights on one or both sides, of a letter piece. A related term Kern is from denotes as part of a type or letter that overhangs over the type block. This is usually to make the effect visually pleasing by using this method of Kerning, kerning adjusts the space in-between individual letters and forms, while tracking and letter spacing adjusts spacing uniformly over a range of characters and letters and text. In typography kerning is the process of spacing between letters or characters in a proportional font this explains the basic understanding of this in the image below. These are conversions for the points from the number to the name. 44 pt: Meridian (US), Two-line Double Pica (Brit.), or Trafalgar.36 pt: Double Great Primer (US), Two-line Great Primer (Brit.).28 pt: Double English (US), Two-line English (Brit.).24 pt: Double Pica (US) Two-line Pica (Brit.).22 pt: Double Small Pica (US), Double Pica (Brit.).16 pt: Columbian (US), Two-line Brevier (Brit.).10 pt: Long Primer, Corpus or Garamond (c.f.6½ pt: Minionette (US), Emerald (Brit.).Traditional point names found on Wikipedia Points are represented by placing the number of points or picas after the p, such as 0p5 for 5 points, or 6p2 for 6 picas and 2 points or 1p1 for 13 points, which is converted to a mixed fraction of 1 pica and 1 point. In the late 1980’s to the 1990’s the traditional point was supplemented by desktop publishing point (also called the PostScript point) which was defined as 72 points to an inch, for examples: (1 point = 1⁄ 72 inches = 25.4⁄ 72 mm = 0.3527 mm).Ī measurement of a pica is to show a p after the number such as 10p, meaning 10 picas. Typesetting and letter press printing Varied between 0.18 and 0.4mm depending on various definitions depending on one’s geographical location like by the end of the nineteenth century it settled for around 0.35 to about 0.38mm. The font and type unit is usual unit for measuring font size and leading and other minute items on a page. The pica contains 12 point units of measure. In typography a point is the smallest unit of measure, being a subdivision of the larger pica, a typographic unit of measurement corresponding to 1/72 of its retrospective foot, and therefore to 1/6 of an inch.