This Week's Waste of Time
Can you space letters correctly? Do you want to?
By James Renovitch, 4:30PM, Thu. Oct. 20, 2011
A game based on the art of typeset spacing (aka kerning) appears to be a design-nerd's fontgasm at first glance … and second glance and third and every glance after that. But for the rest of us it can be five minutes that you spend thinking about something glanced over every other moment of your life. Get your rulers out, it's time to play Kerntype!
The game is simple, you start with a word spelled with inappropriately spaced letters. It's your job to move them around so that the spacing is even and appropriate. Beware the "Ye" and Wo" combos that involve nesting of one letter into the other. I'm not going to offer many other hints so that my score of 91 remains impressive to my fragile ego.
As a co-worker pointed out, we can only hope for a leading game to follow. (That's the spacing between lines of text, if you didn't know. We do, because it's kind of our biz.)
Click here to play Kerntype. Please comment if you get a score below 91.
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