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Now we're going to look at the space that occurs between letters; and I'm sorry to say,
I don't have a formula for you for how they fit together, because letters are all different
shapes. So, I think it's good to practice words, and to look at the way letters fit
together in words. For example, if I have a word that has two "O's", I'm probably going
to put them a little closer, and I'll make a word that has two "L's", of course I'm skipping
the whole rest of the word. If we analyze the space that's in between these two letters,
we're going to say, "well my goodness, that space is extremely thin", and we'll look at
the space between the "L's" and say, "well at least double that space." Because the letters
themselves in-compass some space, so we've got some extra space occurring here, and here,
which we don't have on the "L's", we're going to open up the space between "L's", and close
up the space between "O's". And as we look at some other possibilities of combinations,
for example, when I have the letter "R"; the letter "R" builds its own space, so I leave
very little space, if I'm writing the letter run, (why don't I write run and show you)
so that the space here is quite narrow, and the space here is wider. So we really make
our letter spacing based on the shapes of the letters that we're combining. And that's
going to help us to make an even pattern of writing across the page. So again, I think
it's helpful to practice a word that you think you might have trouble spacing a couple of
times.