rekern

verb

Etymology

From re- + kern.

  1. derived from ceithern
  2. inherited from kerne
  3. prefixed as rekern — “re + kern

Definitions

  1. To kern again.

    • Illustrator tends to treat a line of text as an object, so changing a word at the end of a line can often result in a great deal of hand-manipulation to rekern the type or move a word onto the next line.
    • Here the original drawing is shown in grey and the infilled tracing in black. The lettering can be further refined and, unlike ink-based artwork, can be rekerned without being redrawn.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rekern. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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