6Foot2 Posted January 13, 2013 Posted January 13, 2013 Link: Kern Type, the kerning game Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to a typographer's solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it. First of 10 kerning problems: http://i.snag.gy/d2o3S.jpg My score: http://i.snag.gy/NYjRm.jpg
john Posted January 13, 2013 Posted January 13, 2013 (edited) Thats great I'm quite good at Kerning as I have worked with a Sign Writer so get used to tweaking to make it visually right, its not offering me a tweet option but I've just done all 10 and getting around 90/100 as an average got 100/100 on a couple of them Edited January 13, 2013 by john
john Posted January 13, 2013 Posted January 13, 2013 That's nice @john [ATTACH=CONFIG]16662[/ATTACH] We've all seen your photoshop skills @SYSMAN_MK
mrbios Posted January 16, 2013 Posted January 16, 2013 88 out of 100, annoying really as i did really badly on two words but got about 4 of the harder ones 100/100 >_< Err anyway....back to work i go
sonofsanta Posted January 16, 2013 Posted January 16, 2013 There were a couple where I didn't tuck the second letter underneath the capital T anywhere near enough but having never been taught anything about this and just having learnt it by doing in Photoshop, I'm quite chuffed tbh
Garacesh Posted January 16, 2013 Posted January 16, 2013 Despite [ATTACH=CONFIG]16734[/ATTACH], [ATTACH=CONFIG]16735[/ATTACH], [ATTACH=CONFIG]16736[/ATTACH] and [ATTACH=CONFIG]16737[/ATTACH] I got [ATTACH=CONFIG]16738[/ATTACH] Rats
AMLinington Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 I got 100/100 on 9/10 but accidently hit 'compare' with my super sentitive mouse on the 'Toronto' one
CESIL Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 94/100 Although it seems to me that if I arrange the letters so that they are visually appealing to me then that is the best arrangement for me...whether that is "correct" is surely a bit subjective? Rather like colour balancing a photograph...we all see colours differently so would often disagree on what is "right", look at someone else's TV and their colour settings will often look wrong to you. Or am I taking this all too seriously
john Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 If your red green colourblind like moi then who knows what your red and green are
6Foot2 Posted February 20, 2013 Author Posted February 20, 2013 If your red green colourblind like moi then who knows what your red and green are I believe I am also colourblind [Red/Green] I have not been tested for it but I do seem to have mild colourblindness [if that is possible] I often cannot agree with my friends/colleagues what certain colours/shades should be called.
john Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 I believe I am also colourblind [Red/Green] I have not been tested for it but I do seem to have mild colourblindness [if that is possible] I often cannot agree with my friends/colleagues what certain colours/shades should be called. Ishihara Test for Color Blindness What do you see then I can see 1 of them clearly and one other sort of the rest all just spots to me which confirms my weakness Oh and for those who will want to ask but dare not, I am fine with Traffic Lights I will not run you over as I can tell if its red or green or even amber (Yes I am regularly asked if I should be allowed to drive as they assume that Red / Green colour blindness = red and green are just grey or not visible at all!)
AMLinington Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 Ishihara Test for Color Blindness What do you see then I can see 1 of them clearly and one other sort of the rest all just spots to me which confirms my weakness Oh and for those who will want to ask but dare not, I am fine with Traffic Lights I will not run you over as I can tell if its red or green or even amber (Yes I am regularly asked if I should be allowed to drive as they assume that Red / Green colour blindness = red and green are just grey or not visible at all!) That seems like a dumb question to ask because we know that the top light is 'red' therefore if the top light is on then the lights are red, and so on. I don't get why people don't logically understand this. It wouldn't matter if you were totally colour blind and saw only in greyscale, a light that is on is still on so as long as you know the sequence of lights you're fine.
6Foot2 Posted February 21, 2013 Author Posted February 21, 2013 Ishihara Test for Color Blindness What do you see then I can see 1 of them clearly and one other sort of the rest all just spots to me... Top left I can see a roughly formed 25. As for the rest: Just a collection of dots arranged into a circle [Middle right I can see that there is supposed to be something there but I can't make it out]
CESIL Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 My youngest brother is red/green colour blind...so what did he do for his first proper job...tomato cultivation!* *he can still tell how ripe a tomato is just by touch!
john Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 Top left I can see a roughly formed 25. As for the rest: Just a collection of dots arranged into a circle [Middle right I can see that there is supposed to be something there but I can't make it out] Yup you match me Welcome to the club no flying planes or working for BT in engineering
6Foot2 Posted May 17, 2013 Author Posted May 17, 2013 Following on from the vision test theme earlier in this thread: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/combination_vision_test.png Mouseover text: If you see two numbers but they're both the same and you have to squint to read them, you have synesthesia, colorblindness, diplopia, and myopia.
LosOjos Posted May 17, 2013 Posted May 17, 2013 Following on from the vision test theme earlier in this thread: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/combination_vision_test.png Mouseover text: I see nothing
X-13 Posted May 17, 2013 Posted May 17, 2013 I see nothing I keep seeing an atom... [ATTACH=CONFIG]18253[/ATTACH]
6Foot2 Posted May 24, 2013 Author Posted May 24, 2013 Back on the topic of kerning: Link: Subtle Google Easter Egg
sparkeh Posted May 24, 2013 Posted May 24, 2013 Back on the topic of kerning: Link: Subtle Google Easter Egg hehe, nice.
AMLinington Posted May 24, 2013 Posted May 24, 2013 Back on the topic of kerning: Link: Subtle Google Easter Egg What am I looking for here?
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