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Kerning and Leading

Two important aspects of designing are kerning and leading.  To kern is to adjust the gap between letters (or other characters) in text.  Leading is the distance between the two baselines of rows of text; essentially it is just line spacing.  These are both essential because without them, text is extremely difficult to read.
Here are two examples of terrible kerning:Image result for bad kerning

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