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As someone who studied typography, I disagree with many of the 'solutions' this game uses my kerning choices to grade against. Even in professional software li
by virtualritz 3y ago
As someone who studied typography, I disagree with many of the 'solutions' this game uses my kerning choices to grade against.
Even in professional
software like InDesign, you can choose between ad-hoc calculated optical kerning and the resp. font's kerning.
These can differ considerably, depending on the intend and preferences of the typographer that designed the font and kerned it.
- Spivak 3y agoThe game is for a different purpose. Once you can get by eye the "book" kerning you can start breaking the rules.
- user3939382 3y agoIs there such thing as book kerning? My impression is that it's an artistic decision.
- jfoutz 3y agoAll my knowledge of keming came from roundabout sources, but I think there are some pretty serous sources. I've never gotten around to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_and_Typesetting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_and_Typesetting but that's a pretty serious start. There's the normal stuff about rivers and lakes, but from the game Toronto is a kinda funny one, To ronto, what's ronto? why are you going there? I think there's a good amount of looking for potential mis-parses, and making sure the reader never slips out of reading, and is forced to re parse.
- hinkley 3y ago<searches page for 'keming'> Damn you.
- MatthiasPortzel 3y agoCorrect me if I’m wrong, but isn’t optical kerning a fallback option for fonts that have no special kerning rules? When would you use it over the font designer’s hand-specified kerning?
- virtualritz 3y agoNot necessarily. See my other comment here about kerning depending on font size. A font may be kerned to be typeset at 10–16pt but you use it for headlines at 24p. The optical kerning may be better suited then.