Typography - Project 2

17/05/19 - 31/05/19 (Week 5 - Week7) Qaezie Ayeman Ramlan (0332981) Typography PROJECT 2 Lecture Notes Lecture 7 _ Text Part 1 & 2 Week 7 (17/5/19) This week after submitting our project 1, Mr.Vinod presented on the rules of Leading, Kerning, Tracking essentially on the Importance Text. In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual letter forms Figure 1.0 Extracted from Mr.Vinods slidess. And then we have Tracking which can easily be confused to Kerning. Tracking is the typographer’s term for letter-spacing. Sometimes confused with kerning (to adjust spacing between individual letters), tracking adjusts the letter-spacing uniformly over a range of characters, the whole word. Tracking affects the visual density of a word, phrase or paragraph.Decreasing the tracking makes the words appear more comp...