In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the space between two specific characters, or letterforms, in a font... The term "keming" is sometimes used informally to refer to poor kerning (the letters r and n placed too closely together being easily mistaken for the letter m).
More information at Kerning, spacing, leading: the invisible art of typography.
For reliable crimes against kerning see the signs at your nearest protest.
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ReplyDeleteThere's a subreddit for that: https://www.reddit.com/r/keming/ (deliberately spelled K-E-M-I-N-G)
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