Discretionary kerning

Nick Shinn
Nick Shinn Posts: 2,306
in Type Design Technique & Theory

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  • Kent Lew
    Kent Lew Posts: 1,020
    edited March 2020
    = “Syncopation”
  • Craig Eliason
    Craig Eliason Posts: 1,485
    “...It’s the sidebearings you *don’t* use”
  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,460
    Photo Typositor user error ;-)
  • Vasil Stanev
    Vasil Stanev Posts: 785
    It looks like a spider playing a trumpet :hushed:

  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,306
    edited March 2020
    The overshoot on the C necessitated it being nudged down a tad, to maintain the hairwidth spacing. However, there’s very little overshoot on this display cut. Also, the K is rotated, again to deal with overshoot. Still, these small adjustments don’t jump out, the focus is on spacing, not alignment.
  • Craig Eliason
    Craig Eliason Posts: 1,485
    I like Seth Meyers' late-night political pieces which use this as a title card, with some very deliberate line-to-line alignments:

    Better execution of a similar idea.
  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,460
    In all fairness, I push spacing for similar reasons often, if it helps the message.
  • Craig Eliason
    Craig Eliason Posts: 1,485
    Fair enough, I should have presented my example as something that the original reminded me of, but made with different intentions so not normatively comparable.

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