Take the 2-minute tour ×  I started reading The Elements of
Typographic Style and found the term "letterfit". I'm unsure as
to what it means. It doesn't appear in the glossary of terms of
the book. Is it related to kerning?  share|improve this question
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graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/2606/… –  e100 Feb 20
'12 at 13:30  1 Answer 1  up vote 5 down vote accepted
"Letterfit" is a general term meaning "the adjustment of spacing
between characters in a piece of text." It is an umbrella word
that encompasses two related but different processes, plus a
third that is (as far as I'm aware) peculiar to Adobe's
applications.  The first is kerning, which is the adjustment of
the space between individual character pairs. A character can be
a letter, a number, a punctuation mark (period, comma, quotation
mark) or other symbol (ornaments, dashes, bullets, etc.).
Larstech's answer shows an example of kerning, and "The Elements
of Typographic Style" contains many examples of problematic
pairs that n