Typography Terminology

Adjusting leading, kerning, and tracking are key to typesetting, Tracking is

since spacing plays a large tole in making your text look basically
proportional and readable. kerning but
over ALL the
Leading is measured from baseline to baseline. It is letters in the
the distance between adjacent lines of type. text instead of
just between
two.
The part of the letter that is above the meanline, is
called the ascender, while the part of the letter under
the baseline is called the descender.

Kerning is the spacing between each letter.