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> if you really hate someone, teach them to recognize bad kerning. The city I'm living in was once famous for its printing history and there's a whole part of
by maweki 3y ago
> if you really hate someone, teach them to recognize bad kerning.
The city I'm living in was once famous for its printing history and there's a whole part of town full of old printworks that have slowly been converted to high price housing. One of the converted buildings has a stairwell that's fully visible through windows and it has in large vinyl letters different names of fonts in that specific font all over the walls. Like "papyrus" in Papyrus, "helvetica" in Helvetica, etc.
And the kerning of those words is just the worst. It's so bad, you'd think that there are random spaces in those words.
The kerning hurts my eyes. The irony pains me a few centimeters deeper.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoThis reminds me of a tattoo idea I'd like to get some day. The word "Helvetica" but printed in a bland serif font like times new roman.
- messe 3y agoI've thought about getting almost the opposite: "Baskerville" printed in Comic Sans.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoExcellent lol. Endless potential with this joke.
- esafak 3y agoOr "papyrus" set in Comic Sans. https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?t=175 https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ?t=175
- esafak 3y agoPapyrus! As it happens I have a friend who worked on Avatar's graphic design and he loves this SNL sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ