rekern

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ blaze.

Verb

rekern (third-person singular simple present rekerns, present participle rekerning, simple past and past participle rekerned)

1. (transitive, typography) To kern again.
   • 1996, Bruce Page, Diana Holm, Web Publishing with Adobe Acrobat and PDF, page 227:

     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.

   • 2011, Andrew Haslam, Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques:

     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.