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NSKernAttributeName

The kerning of the text.

Declaration

extern NSAttributedStringKey const NSKernAttributeName;

Discussion

The value of this attribute is an NSNumber object containing a floating-point value. This value specifies the number of points by which to adjust kern-pair characters. Kerning prevents unwanted space from occurring between specific characters and depends on the font. The value 0 means kerning is disabled. The default value for this attribute is 0.

See Also

Getting rendering attribute keys