32
votes
Accepted
Is that a good kerning?
Two quick tips for checking kerning... squinting your eyes, and inverting the text... by doing this you can focus more on the contrast and white-space and be less distracted by the actual letters ...
- 8,552
26
votes
Is my logo kerned correctly?
Kerning is really more of a "by eye" thing and based almost entirely on opinion. The goal is a smooth shape without any percieved gaps.
I would tighten kerning on both sides of the A and S - ...
- 211k
10
votes
Is my logo kerned correctly?
Too much room around A and S. Or it's too tight elsewhere.
Worse: S looks like its rotated and has became too low. Letter C looks too low due its form. Maybe a reason to try different fonts.
Here the ...
- 134
9
votes
Change kerning between two specific characters, in a ttf
What you see is an fi ligature (U+FB01). This is a deliberate feature of the font.
There are some letters pairs which tend to get too close to each other or even overlap. Increasing kerning will make ...
- 21.3k
6
votes
Accepted
Online radio logo feedback request
It's the Beat's by Dre logo
The logo isn't memorable and is frankly a rehash of every online radio site ever.
Headphone/mic? Check
Radio "waves" Check
Trendly smooth gradient? Check
I don't get ...
- 5,253
6
votes
Accepted
What's the origin of "Kern, Baby, Kern."?
For sure it's a pun, though Suzanne Brockman's "Home Fire Inferno - Burn Baby Burn" is itself 'borrowed' from the 1977 song by The Trammps - Disco Inferno; the main chorus line of which is "Burn Baby ...
- 5,046
5
votes
Proper use of ligature and kerning
ligatures are designed specifically for this. Well sometimes for stylistic reasons, but combination with "f" will often have collisions. "fi" and "fl" are the most common examples. In these cases it ...
- 40.8k
5
votes
Accepted
Kerning in FontForge does not seem to have any effect
You somehow managed to leave the feature field of your lookup empty:
If you change this field’s content to kern, everything should be working as expected.
Explanation: Lookups are controlled with ...
- 14.9k
4
votes
Custom kerning of an existing typeface?
The issue isn't kerning, it's the width of the figures. Avenir (at least the version I have) uses tabular figures as opposed to proportional figures—which essentially means the figures are monospaced, ...
- 40.8k
4
votes
Feedback for personal brand facelift
Personal opinion....
I dislike the thinner font weight. The more open counters are nice, but the thinner stroke weights are contrary to the mark. Kerning is better in the thin type, especially ...
- 211k
3
votes
Help with kerning in circle graphic
I agree that the issue is unsolvable. The issue is the design. If you want balance, you must use balanced elements. kerning can only accomplish so much. Splitting the "N" and the "C&...
- 31
3
votes
Feedback for personal brand facelift
20 years!
This is a very personal opinion which you are free to consider or not :) After using these ultra classic font families myself for a long time, I'm now moving away from these and trying out ...
- 29.6k
3
votes
Online radio logo feedback request (Part 2)
I like it. Yes, the colors are a good match and provide enough contrast. The icon no longer looking like a well-known logo. The wording also seems fine with a good balance between the words and icon. ...
- 29.6k
3
votes
The logic of kerning classes
The idea behind kerning classes is that they should contain glyphs that kern similarly or ideally identically in one direction (left or right).
By grouping them together you avoid redundant work as ...
- 14.9k
3
votes
Accepted
Is the kerning on my logo correct?
The F and L do look a little tight but I don’t think it’s too bad. I like the logo by the way.
- 64
3
votes
What's the origin of "Kern, Baby, Kern."?
It's a paraphrase of the book sub-title "Home Fire Inferno - Burn, Baby, Burn!" by Suzanne Brockman.
Burn, baby burn was a chant during the race riots in Watts, California. The Watts riots, sometimes ...
- 5,071
3
votes
Is the kerning on my logo correct?
Not sure which font this is, but consider turning the F/L combo into a ligature if that's available with your font. This joins the letters together and makes an optical correction to particular letter ...
- 29.6k
3
votes
Feedback: Kerning with loose tracking
Just my opinion- I like the way you have it set up with the loose tracking.
I made just a couple tweaks- I thought there was a bit too much space in "sam" also between the A,C,and R of "...
- 4,229
3
votes
Accepted
Need help with kerning my wordmark
I think overall the kerning is pretty good. However, at times it can be helpful to abandon anything mathematical or scientific and merely use visuals to refine.
Looking at the full mark I feel there's ...
- 211k
3
votes
Should an 'fi' ligature be created for and used in the case where the 'i' has an accent?
I've never seen such a font, but then I'm an English speaker and we rarely use accents/diacritics, except perhaps in a few word borrowings from other languages.
"Should" is far too strong a ...
- 87.9k
2
votes
Accepted
Kerning Problems in Illustrator. Other Letter Pairs Affected
I see it on some monitors, but to me it merely appears to be a preview update and pixel density rendering issue.
Clearly if you kern something the following glyphs need to shift. On a non-retina, ...
- 211k
2
votes
Is the kerning on my logo correct?
I suggest you add a little space between "f" and "l". Plus, minus the space between graphical emblem and the logo text. It looks a bit off to the right in my opinion.
2
votes
Proper use of ligature and kerning
it depends on your intentions with this typographic material.
If it is supposed to be something stylistic, condensed kerning may be an aesthetic approach to some given design choice.
but, if you ...
- 1,074
2
votes
Adobe InDesign/Typesetting: No kerning possible for first letter in indented line?
With your headline text selected, enable the "Optical Margin Alignment" feature, found under "Window > Type & Tables > Story", change that amount to your font size and ...
- 29.6k
2
votes
EB Garamond is available in a few places, but includes different things in each. Which way is best to go?
It's a free font whose original designer hasn't been able to devote the time to finishing it. My understanding is that another designer took the 12 point optical (intended to look best at a size of ...
- 4,361
2
votes
Typographers' "canon of exemplars": What are some books that typographers think are examples of great typography?
I am the asker of the question, but I will get us started. The following seems to belong to the canon:
Penguin Books under Jan Tschichold
Jan Tschichold has been called a titan of typography and a ...
- 171
2
votes
Feedback: Kerning with loose tracking
This is pretty subjective, but with this particular typeface and this particular weight, I would try a lower tracking value, or use a thicker weight.
Or thicker weight and bigger tracking. Or just ...
- 29.6k
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible