An interactive lesson from the Better Web Type series that walks through kerning, leading, and tracking by having you adjust real paragraph type until it reads cleanly.
The difference tight vs. loose letter-spacing and line-height make to actual readability, beyond theory alone.
Anyone who's set type by eye without knowing why it looked off.
10-15 minutes for the full lesson.
Sharpen paragraph-shaping skills — kerning, leading and tracking — in an interactive lesson.
