In "Tweaking Text in Scribus," I briefly described the tools available for manipulating text in Scribus. Now, it's time to really get your typographic geek on, and look in greater detail at how to ...

Somewhere right now a designer is silently screaming at an example of bad kerning, whether on a sign, website, magazine or menu. Have you ever noticed words where some letters are closer together ...

Kerning is the art of adjusting (usually tightening) the space between individual letter pairs. This selective, manual spacing is done to eliminate awkward spaces and to make words easy to recognize.

Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney If the type that surrounds us clamours for our attention, then the space that ...