Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Somewhere right now a designer is silently screaming at an example of bad kerning, whether on a sign, website, magazine or menu.

There are many excellent free fonts, but depending on the font, it is also possible that the spacing between letters becomes unnatural when arranging letters. In such a case, adjust the character ...

If the type that surrounds us clamours for our attention, then the space that surrounds it is the silent component: ever-present, but only considered when it imposes upon, hinders or muddies type’s ...

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 ...