Etymology

kerning

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Today it means: The adjustment of the horizontal space between selected pairs of glyphs in a typeface. Full definition →

French carne
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The story

  1. French · derived fromcarne“corner”
  2. English todaykerning

From kern (“part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter”) + -ing, from French carne (“corner”).

Words from the same roots

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