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Originally Posted by kandwo
But shouldn't kerning remove spaces rather than add them?
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No, Kerning puts appropriate spacing depending on the characters. Spaces are not added or removed within a word. Fully justified text can use various tricks (on KFX and PDFs) to vary letter and word spacing to reduce white rivers or hyphens.
Only monospace fonts are not kerned. Any proportional font needs kerned for best appearance and while a proportional font will work with a fixed space between each letter as the space taken by a letter varies (i vs w), certain combinations can be more tightly, or even possibly less tightly (in some languages) spaced. A few languages don't use kerning as such, either simply using fixed size spacing, or different forms of the letters (Arabic).