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Re:Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël by JoshTriplett on Friday October 07, 2011 @08:33PM (#3086606)
I tried this a couple of times, but the first and last letters seem so far apart that this becomes less about "make it look good" and more about "make it look less terrible". I can make the letters look great together with the first letter, which results in nearly a full letter's worth of space between the penultimate letter and the last. Perhaps this just represents an artifact of drawing the font extra-huge, but these fonts all feel like they need condensing to look decent.
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Re:Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël by duopixel on Friday October 07, 2011 @11:29PM (#3086945)
People often track too tight because it looks good when it's large type at a close distance. However, this is absolutely terrible for legibility in real life conditions where you either look at small type from close or large type from far away.
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Re:Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël by Scottish on Monday October 10, 2011 @09:56AM (#3093761)
Hi, I just wrote to you on Twitter before seeing this thread. I agree with you here, but the issue is that your default setup is close, large type :) Zooming with the browser does indeed help. Perhaps you should call attention to the fact that one can do that?
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Re:Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël by Adaptive on Friday October 07, 2011 @11:38PM (#3086964)
Good kerning can be done with tight and loose letter grouping. I much prefer the loose tracking here as it give much greater precision to the final submission.
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Re:Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël by alextebbs on Friday October 07, 2011 @09:14PM (#3086695)
I felt like this as well. I think it needs variable font sizes and the ability to move the first or last letter and then this would be great fun.
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Re:Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël by patrickaljord on Friday October 07, 2011 @10:04PM (#3086777)
It's svg so you can just zoom in and out.
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Re:Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël by kenferry on Sunday October 16, 2011 @05:27PM (#3118352)
I was originally thinking the same, but I think it's because I was considering everything to be body text in a paragraph. If you think of them as potentially word marks, it seems valid to use tight OR wide overall spacing, really more of a stylistic choice.

Also, scored 93. Woo!

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