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Bad keming: Kerning failures, plus other typographical and font mishaps
- aorth 2y agoFun! Reminds me of the Unnecessary Quotes blog. http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
- DonHopkins 2y agoI'm afraid to dick on that url!
- kazinator 2y agoI scrolled, looking for "the rapist", and there it was. That was a joke on The Benny Hill Show. (More than one time.) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34id0y https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34id0y
- rufus_foreman 2y agoAlso on Three's Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojeGRiGdhc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojeGRiGdhc.
- jszymborski 2y agoAlways will make me think of Arrested Development's Tobias Funke https://youtu.be/pz8aYiH_nRg https://youtu.be/pz8aYiH_nRg
- Arainach 2y agoPreviously submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424759 Why does this blog with relatively little content mostly stolen from reddit.com/r/keming keep getting posted here?
- evanjrowley 2y agoI would rather view it on Tumblr, honestly. IMO the reddit experience has degraded as the business model shifted over the years.
- Dalewyn 2y ago1) Because it's name is two words. 2) Because the content is brutally simple to understand. 3) Because dad jokes resonate. TL;DR) Because meme.
- jojohohanon 2y agoFrom the best snl skit * Whore ads for $100 * The penis mightier “I’ll play your little game trebek!” Idk what my point is really. That high and low art share the same source, possibly, but I 100% retconned.
- shepherdjerred 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaYMoTi2g8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaYMoTi2g8
- kstrauser 2y agoI used to take my jalopy to Clint’s Auto. The sign was handpainted on the building with big, squared letters. The L and the I were a bit too close together in “CLINT’S”, and it always made my inner middle schooler laugh to see it.
- MrMcCall 2y agoFLICK is my ever-childish font-dependent fav.
- hackernewds 2y agoas a designer myself, I assure you more than half of these are intentional. we dream for these kinds of shenanigans
- usrusr 2y agoOr honest space bar accidents. Just as much "not kerning". The "you have what it takes" is an excellent piece of positivity, because even typography laymen like me can clearly see that it was all done on purpose, giving a soft warm resonance with the message. "You're a good boy, you saw right through the message the expert set up for you"
- rwoerz 2y agoI had my bad kerning / bad font selection awakening when a student asked me after a lecture about Apache Maven what the porn.xml is for.
- chuckadams 2y agoThere was a great maven blog back in the day, called “hardcore pom”
- Someone 2y agohttps://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to... avoids lower-casing POM as much as possible for a reason, I think. I do wonder whether that potential keming issue is accidental or a joke. Does anybody here know?
- Kwpolska 2y agoTIL it stands for "Project Object Model". It sounds like a backronym or made-up name to me.
- perching_aix 2y ago> made-up name Are there any non-made-up terms? :)
- stavros 2y agoOnomatopoeias.
- perching_aix 2y agoHmm, that's a good one. Although since they're different for every language, I'd argue they still capture the inherent made-upness of language.
- kilian 2y agoYears ago I made https://fuckyeahkeming.com/ https://fuckyeahkeming.com/ with the same premise. It had some good ones but after some time it’s just repeats of the same few words/letter combos for the funny ones: li becoming u, cl becoming d. Other common issues are text being printed in the wrong font (using default letter shapes but the wrong kerning info), missing spaces (“me at” to “meat”) or poor tracking, which is excess space applied to all letters. I stopped because it started feeling pedantic rather than funny.