#kerning

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In graphic design, once you learn about kerning, you can never stop seeing bad kerning everywhere you look.

Learn about kerning, and then teach someone else about it if you want to ruin their day. (And potentially the rest of their life.)

I imagine there’s a version of this in many fields.

Anyway yeah I think if you are doing a particular skill or craft and you don’t notice the craftsmanship or nuances or intentions of someone else’s then why are you even in the field? What even got you there?

okay sorry, one other thing annoyed me about that writing class. one of the students is this super clean-cut doctor who works at an HIV clinic, and he asked the prof "do you ever get distracted while reading books, because you find yourself analyzing the craft of them instead of sinking into the story?"

and she said "no," and turned away. and the whole class laughed awkwardly, bc it was a pretty abrupt and dismissive answer. so then she turned back to him and said "you wouldn't ask a musician if they get distracted listening to songs. they just enjoy the music."

but I dunno, I'm a newbie writer with only one (scheduled-to-be-published) book under my belt, but I get distracted sometimes when I'm reading. if I find I'm not sinking into a block of text, I'll squint at it and be like "okay, they're using too much passive voice, that's why my brain isn't grabbing on to it." so I'm sorry Mr. HIV doctor, I thought your question was reasonable!

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This tattoo is very funny when you know that kerning is the fancy term for the space between letters. Very important in text design to get it right.

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Letter spacing murder

[theotherhappyplace]

Hey baby, if i was worse at kerning i would put "U" and "I" together.

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Move

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about me:

Shvidi or Seven

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I write sci-fi and fantasy, usually with horror undertones

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Blog Post #5: Kerning

This week we are focusing on typefaces and kerning. I find this project even more difficult than the grid project from last week, as messing up on the lines isn’t as forgiving compared to last week’s project. My strategy for this assignment is to focus on the spacing between each individual pair of letters instead of the entire word. I’ll be looking back on the notes I took for kerning to check my progress. My thought process is to practice on tracing paper before going on the final product. This gives me the opportunity to get a feel for how tracing the font will be before adding the pressure of being as perfect as possible on the final work. 

I’ve printed 9 copies of the blank page to give myself some wiggle room when I mess up. The most difficult part of the project thus far is the kerning and neatness. I struggle to be exact with circular letters like a, c, and o, as it’s difficult to not mess up when it comes to the outer lines. In order for me to succeed, I must take my time and not get shaky when tracing.

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[diamondbrickz]

why are the parentheses Doing That

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[sweaterkittensahoy]

Just saw this combo dick/kerning joke on Bluesky, so of course I thought of you!

yo momma’s kerning so bad all her hyperlinks say ‘dick here’

I'll see myself out...

Yes!!!!

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APP 3: PASSAGE 

For this design I worked with the manifesto Think different by Apple. I used hierarchy to bring emphasis to the most important parts, by using a bolder typestyle and making some words bigger. I algo played with the alignment to balance the weight of the bold words. Adjusting the tracking and the kerning made the text look different, so I also adjusted the tracking in some words to make them look longer, without having to make them bigger. I learned that the way you stylize the words can give a whole new perspective to a text. 

Manifesto: 

Apple: think different   Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Keywords: 

Hierarchy 

Bold 

Different sizes 

Alignment 

Left align 

Right align 

Important 

Important words

Leading 

Kerning 

Tracking 

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