Timeline for Is my logo kerned correctly?
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| S Aug 8, 2023 at 15:53 | history | suggested | Alexander Nied | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Changed "right" to "correctly" for clarity, and quotation marks for clarity, fixed lowercase letter starting a sentence.
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| Aug 4, 2023 at 2:22 | comment | added | Mentalist | Your C and S could benefit from a little overshoot. And the "NNE" area feels crowded. I understand the logic of wanting gaps equidistant with the letter thickness, but it can actually make a word of this length less readable. More cognitive load required for line detection when trying to distinguish individual characters or something like that, if you want to get analytical. | |
| Aug 2, 2023 at 17:31 | comment | added | Thomas Weller | @Mast: the S looks slightly tilted to me | |
| Aug 1, 2023 at 16:53 | comment | added | Jon Purdy | @Mast: It’s missing optical adjustment. In this font, the S is the same height as the other caps. But especially at large display sizes, curved & pointed letterforms need to extend a few percent beyond the usual baseline and cap height of the typeface, or they’ll look slightly too short. It’s related to kerning, in that both of them are about “visual weight”: a smaller horizontal cross-section contributes less vertical weight, and vice versa. | |
| Aug 1, 2023 at 15:21 | comment | added | Mast | The S looks odd to me. Not sure whether it has anything to do with kerning, but it looks as if it's not the same font at all. | |
| Jul 31, 2023 at 15:29 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Aug 8, 2023 at 15:53 | |||||
| Jul 31, 2023 at 4:07 | comment | added | JBH | @Scott's answer is a good one that leads to a simple rule. Anything about your logo that distracts people from seeing it as a whole object is bad. If you noticed problems with the A and the S, then you already knew the kerning was off and didn't need us to tell you. (Kudos, BTW. You've learned the skill and only need to build your confidence.) Kerning is little more than the artistic practice of removing unintentional distractions to improve the likelihood of intended recognition. | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 21:35 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 30, 2023 at 16:29 | answer | added | Scott | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 14:25 | answer | added | Doorman | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 30, 2023 at 14:16 | review | Close votes | |||
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| S Jul 30, 2023 at 13:34 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jul 30, 2023 at 13:34 | history | asked | Orangensaft123 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |