What’s on the Kerning, Tracking, Leading poster
A 4-row table: Term · Adjusts · Use it to.
Each control adjusts a different gap.
- Kerning — One pair of letters — Close a gap: Ta, Yo, AV
- Tracking — A whole run, evenly — Set caps, or fix a rag
- Leading — Space between baselines — Set the texture of a page
- Word space — The gaps between words — Even out the colour of a line
Leading is measured baseline to baseline. Set 10/13 means ten point type on thirteen points of line spacing.
Questions about the Kerning, Tracking, Leading poster
- What’s on the Kerning, Tracking, Leading poster?
- A 4-row table: Term · Adjusts · Use it to. Each control adjusts a different gap. Kerning — One pair of letters — Close a gap: Ta, Yo, AV; Tracking — A whole run, evenly — Set caps, or fix a rag; Leading — Space between baselines — Set the texture of a page; Word space — The gaps between words — Even out the colour of a line. Leading is measured baseline to baseline. Set 10/13 means ten point type on thirteen points of line spacing.
- Who is the Kerning, Tracking, Leading poster for?
- Kerning, Tracking, Leading belongs to the Art & Design section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning typography can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Kerning, Tracking, Leading poster?
- Use it to name the space that is wrong before trying to fix it. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Kerning, Tracking, Leading belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Kerning, Tracking, Leading?
- The Baseline Grid, Dashes & Quotes and Figures & Small Caps sit alongside Kerning, Tracking, Leading in the Art & Design section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Baseline GridDashes & QuotesFigures & Small Caps
- Is the Kerning, Tracking, Leading poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Kerning, Tracking, Leading downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Art & Design section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Kerning, Tracking, Leading poster print at?
- Kerning, Tracking, Leading is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Kerning, Tracking, Leading loses nothing.Printing guide
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