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Forgotten Kerning
Posted by filip blazek in
7 Oct 2011 — 3:49am
7 Oct 2011 — 3:49am
It is my pleasure to announce, my contribution to the ATypI conference in Reykjavík "Forgotten Kerning" is now online at http://diacritics.typo.cz.
You can access it via menu or directly at http://diacritics.typo.cz/index.php?id=85
The text is based on my presentation in Reykjavík, Iceland, although I've slightly expanded it and modified some sections.
As Diacritics Project is wiki-based, please feel free to edit or expand the information published on the website.
The printed version of this text will be published in the next issue of TYPO Magazine #45 during October, please check http://www.typo.cz/en for updates. Don't forget ATypI members are entitled to a discount on subscription (10% one-year, 15% two-years).
All the best from Prague,
Filip Blažek
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7 Oct 2011 — 6:55am
With a hearty thank you!
7 Oct 2011 — 7:34am
A helpful resource--thank you very much for posting it!
7 Oct 2011 — 11:57am
Very interesting. In English, the comma usually (but not always) goes inside the quotation marks, Lady," not Lady", but there are exceptions, so it's probably necessary to kern both ways round.
I had no idea that those 'low-9' quotation marks went before the text. I'll have to remember that!
Maybe I'll just stick everything in classes and kern every eventuality just in case.
7 Oct 2011 — 12:41pm
I think that should read "In American English..."
7 Oct 2011 — 12:49pm
No, in English English too. There are more exceptions in Britain than America though.
7 Oct 2011 — 2:05pm
Comma placement also depends on the audience. Hacker types are sensitive to this, since punctuation in the wrong place can foul up a computer manual quite badly. See the Jargon File for more.
11 Oct 2011 — 8:46am
Wonderful resource. I shared this with my entire department.
The Directer of Creative Services sent this email out in response:
"Read and then test your kerning skillz with this:
http://type.method.ac/
Note: Anyone caught wasting time with this kerning game during work hours will be publicly humiliated at a time and place of my choosing."
11 Oct 2011 — 4:02pm
Bookmarked. Thank you.
14 Oct 2011 — 2:22am
Excellent article!
Very informative, interesting and well presented.
More pairs to add to our test documents :)
I just reviewed a few iKerned fonts, and they seem to cover about 60-70% of this extreme pairs.
14 Oct 2011 — 8:00am
The Kerntype game is horrible misinformation.
Here's an example of what the site proposes as good kerning:
14 Oct 2011 — 10:18am
You're right, Nick, but you're in the wrong thread.
14 Oct 2011 — 10:49am
I was responding to Daniel's mention of http://type.method.ac/
The idea being that there may be a certain amount of serendipitous wandering in a thread, rather than hewing slavishly to the OP's topic.
14 Oct 2011 — 11:44am
Oh, you're right, I didn't see it mentioned here too. I thought you had intended it for this other, recent thread. http://typophile.com/node/86189
14 Oct 2011 — 3:16pm
No, I have missed that thread.