kerning

On Firefox/Windows the kerning is all slightly off, so to my eye the words break in weird places.

If you want good kerning you’re going to have to manually adjust the kerning tables.

Where non-serifed fonts are used, they aren't particularly readable, the kerning is off and the weight is too high in general.

The compromise is automatic kerning, which isn't as good, but isn't too shabby.

However, when you full justify text you're forcing the computer to abandon its best attempt at good kerning.

> Here's how you adjust kerning No, that's how you adjust kerning if you want to do it manually as a one-off task.

That's not how you do kerning in Interface Builder, it's got nothing to do with Interface Builder.

Fine control over the details, such as character-by-character adjustment of kerning, is more effectively done elsewhere.

In print you do a lot of hand kerning, including magazine articles as well as ads.

The type designers are the ones who have to concern themselves heavily with the font kerning.

Type designers spend almost as many hours perfecting the built in kerning as they do creating the outlines themselves, because the space is integral to the font as a whole.

Here is a link to the same content in a typeface that has more reasonable kerning and is easier to read.

The kerning for Chapter "10.4" is killing me though.

Yes there are times, especially with display type, that you want to adjust the kerning between a few pairs of glyphs, but to say to "never trust a font to provide your kerning" suggests to me that you use a lot of poorly designed free fonts rather than professionally realized typefaces from reputable font foundries.

Kerning is a good thing, it increases readability.

Kerning on the credits, Position of titling.