Discretionary kerning
Nick Shinn
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= “Syncopation”
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“...It’s the sidebearings you *don’t* use”1
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Photo Typositor user error ;-)
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It looks like a spider playing a trumpet
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It looks like they positioned letters in the second line to line up with letters in the first line. The second line is quantized to the first, in other words.6
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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.0
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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.0 -
In all fairness, I push spacing for similar reasons often, if it helps the message.
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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.0
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