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Kerning is the manual adjustment of the spacing between two specific [glyphs](/glossary/glyph). A kerning pair is the same adjustment, but determined by the [type designer](/glossary/type_designer)—with the instructions embedded directly within in a [font](/glossary/font) file.
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Novice [typographers](/glossary/typographer) mistakenly talk about kerning when they actually mean [tracking (or “letter-spacing” in CSS)](/glossary/tracking_letter_spacing). Kerning is all about the customized spacing between two particular glyphs, whereas tracking is the spacing between glyphs applied to an entire piece of text.
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[Turning on “kerning” via OpenType in CSS](/lesson/manual_kerning_is_rarely_required) enables the kerning pair data already in the font file. Note that it’s turned on by default in most modern browsers, but can be disabled with `font-kerning: none;`.
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