Topic: FAO: font nerds

beckyderp !4aMoRa.T2Q started this discussion 10 years ago #49,178

What is the best way to explain kerning to a non-font nerd?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 43 seconds later[^] [v] #640,281

the distance between letters

RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,282

Beat them with a typewriter.

squeegee joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 20 minutes later, 22 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,290

it's like stretching a caterpillar

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 5 minutes later, 28 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,291

@640,281 (B)
That

Adam Jensen joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later, 31 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,293

@640,281 (B)
That's tracking

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 28 seconds later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,294

@640,282 (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)

> Beat them with a typewriter.

Stop trying to be funny.

Anonymous B replied with this 10 years ago, 32 seconds later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,295

@640,293 (Adam Jensen)
> In typography, kerning (less commonly mortising) is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.

Adam Jensen replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 34 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,296

@previous (B)
Yeah, between two specific characters, not the spacing between all characters in a text.

@op

http://cdn2.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/kerning-610x424.png

RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 4 seconds later, 34 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,297

@640,294 (G)
Say something funnier, then.

Either you are a hypocrite, or you will bring joy to the fora.

Checkmate!

Anonymous B replied with this 10 years ago, 56 seconds later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,298

@640,296 (Adam Jensen)
i said space between letters, not space between all letters

______ joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 36 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,299

Bad karmic typewriter on drugs served I DONT KNOW WHAT to get his ways.

______ double-posted this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 38 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,300

Since then I have been in the mental hospital

Adam Jensen replied with this 10 years ago, 14 seconds later, 38 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,301

@640,298 (B)
Nor did you say space between two letters, so you could have been taking about kerning or tracking.

Anonymous B replied with this 10 years ago, 40 seconds later, 39 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #640,302

@previous (Adam Jensen)
get fucked

Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #640,321

@OP

> What is the best way to explain kerning to a non-font nerd?

It's like when someone takes a picture of a group of people and he says for everyone to smoosh together so it looks nice.

Metæ joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 4 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #640,323

@OP
How close the letters are smushed together?

FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 3 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #640,364

It's what happens when you stop writing papers with comic sans and become a fucking adult.

Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #640,383

Is it the spacing between each pair of letters? Is it relative to the tracking?

Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 23 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #640,386

@previous (L)
It's relative to the autism

Minichan