Kerning secrets
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- gramme0
print it out, look at it upside down until you see shapes and not letterforms.
I think johndiggity recently articulated something that I use: there are three basic types of spacial relationships created between words. There is round/round, round/square (or upright, etc. whatever you want to call it), and square/square. The latter gets more space when tweaking kerning; the previous (round/square) gets a bit less; and round/round gets the tightest kerning. Respective examples would be b/o, b/k, l/k and so on.
I've also learned that space relationships change as you increase or decrease the tracking. Particularly in letterforms like "K", "L", and "R" which often require some re-drawing of letterforms in closely-tracked settings, but not necessarily when the spacing is tracked out.