herring

n 1: valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern

Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled

2: commercially important food fish of northern waters of both

Atlantic and Pacific [syn: {Clupea harangus}]

kerning

The process of reducing the spacing between certain

pairs of letters to improve their appearance. When a {font}

is created, each {character} is given a width that includes

some space around it so that the letters don't run into each

other when displayed or printed. This can be thought of as an

invisible box around each character. Some pairs of characters

such as A and V, look better if the boxes overlap slightly,

bringing the characters closer together (but still not

touching).

See also {tracking}, {leading}.

(1996-06-07)