Easily adjust text kerning using your keyboard (Illustrator CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5)

Adjusting the space between text characters is known as kerning. Most font designers create a font with kerning automatically built into their fonts, but not every kerning character combination works in every situation. Sometimes you have to kern a pair of characters by hand. One way to do this is to select the characters with the Type tool and adjust the space using the Character panel. Another option is to click between the characters with the Type tool, press and hold down [option] ([Alt] in Windows); and then adjust the kerning by pressing either [Left Arrow] or [Right Arrow].