Tight Kerning is Tight!

In this video, I will show you that tight kerning is perfectly fine, especially when done correctly.
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[@arsene6867]

so satisfying how kerning looks when accelerated like that

[@TheDesignSmith]

Right?! And you just gave me an idea for a video 😎

[@knast7093]

Can help but wonder why you're manually kerning every letter of the type instead of setting the tracking? Is it to get the spacing even smaller than what you would with just tracking 🤔

[@TheDesignSmith]

Because tracking applies the same setting across all characters, whereas kerning adjusts the spacing between individual letters. Tracking is great if you want to spread out characters, but doesn't give you complete control of spacing like kerning does. You may want (-20) for one set, but (-70) for another. You can't achieve that with tracking 😎

[@knast7093]

@@TheDesignSmith thank you for the reply! I usually use the automatic Optical Kerning option in InDesign but perhaps I should learn to kern manually 😁

[@TheDesignSmith]

@@knast7093 ​ Absolutely! Always start with optical kerning and then manually adjust from there. Most of the time, I don't kern large blocks of type, but absolutely for headlines and smaller blocks.
You should watch this video I did on Kerning VS Tracking: ruclips.net/video/Ht9Kopx0r9M/видео.html