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I feel Google's kerning is too squished, but hers to too far apart. I wonder if one could come up with some kind of formula to calculate the distance between t
by ma2rten 11y ago
I feel Google's kerning is too squished, but hers to too far apart.
I wonder if one could come up with some kind of formula to calculate the distance between the letters as perceived by the majority of people, based on say pixel density.
- kamekai 11y agoStrange, I really felt like Google's kerning was too far apart.
- cpeterso 11y agoThat sounds like the kind of a data-driven, "42 shades of blue" approach Google is known for. :) There was a kerning game on Hacker News a while ago. The player's goal was to arrange the letters of a word to the "correct" kerning. Now imagine something like that at Google scale, like captchas or the Google Image tag matchin game.
- threatofrain 11y agoIt's possible that "good kerning" interacts with factors like distance from screen and font size. So you cannot isomorphically scale up. That would mean Google would actually need different kerning for different contexts.