It’s the visual spacing between letters, which usually involves some letters that have curves or corners to actually not strictly follow the spacing. For example the legs of the letter A might stick out a tiny bit in certain fonts. This gives text a more visually balanced kerning.
In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies
Damnit, I’m going to see this everywhere now, aren’t I?
Yep.
You’re welcome.
Relevant xkcd
Is kerning the spacing between letters?
Between any typographical characters, but yeah, basically 🙂
It’s the visual spacing between letters, which usually involves some letters that have curves or corners to actually not strictly follow the spacing. For example the legs of the letter A might stick out a tiny bit in certain fonts. This gives text a more visually balanced kerning.
Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today
Interesting!
That bottom depiction really makes it obvious that butterflies never have their wings like that
I can’t wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!
Oh wow, thats very interesting!
Didn’t see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago… Thanks for the info
Neat, the alive ones look way more similar to moths.
i will never see butterfly depictions the same again