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Kerning is the manual adjustment of the spacing between two specific glyphs. A kerning pair is the same adjustment, but determined by the type designer—with the instructions embedded directly within in a font file.

The word “WAVE" shown with some manual kerning adjustments to make the spaces between the letterforms more visually pleasing.

Novice typographers mistakenly talk about kerning when they actually mean tracking (or “letter-spacing” in CSS). 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.

Turning on “kerning” via OpenType in CSS 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;.