rekern

present singular third person rekerns · participle present rekerning · participle past rekerned · past rekerned

1. transitivemediaTo kern again.

   Here the original drawing is shown in grey and the infilled tracing in black. The lettering can be further refined and, unlike ink-based artwork, can be rekerned without being redrawn.

   2011, Andrew Haslam, Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques

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   Illustrator tends to treat a line of text as an object, so changing a word at the end of a line can often result in a great deal of hand-manipulation to rekern the type or move a word onto the next line.

   1996, Bruce Page, Diana Holm, Web Publishing with Adobe Acrobat and PDF, page 227