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Funnily enough the example given of good “L” and “T” kerning in the word SALTY is badly kerned, the letters are kerned too close to each other. The classic tric
by seumars 2y ago
Funnily enough the example given of good “L” and “T” kerning in the word SALTY is badly kerned, the letters are kerned too close to each other. The classic trick is to look at 3-letter groups at a time, one word at a time.
- gundmc 2y agoI thought so too, but now if I look it seems as if every letter is just under two stripes with from its neighbor?
- eviks 2y agoThis doesn't help much since visual perception doesn't depend just on this distance
- beezlewax 2y agoIt's more of an artform than a science as I think different people perceive this differently
- pixelfarmer 2y agoThis has a lot to do with framing in photography, architecture, and all these other things where "design" is involved that humans perceive as pleasing. It also means that not everyone has a knack for that. In return, chances are good that there are ways to actually "calculate" it. One well known example: The golden ratio that shows up in many designs, architecture, framing etc.
- hinkley 2y agoI worked on a project that was using shades of grey for everything before we hired a designer. It was terrible and illegible and designed by our boss who I’m am entirely convinced has aphantasia. Someone started complaining that two pieces of text weren’t the same color. They were exactly the same color though. We’d built an entire UI full of optical illusions.
- Hackbraten 2y agoIt’s a deliberate design decision because of the stripes: > The pattern of vertical stripes means that kerns can only be a multiple of the stripe repeat (not quite true, and i have sketched out more general versions of this, but it is true for this font).
- hinkley 2y agoAnd the HN font on Safari puts the TY too close together IMO. Look at them touching. Gross.