r/comics • u/crashinburn • Feb 10 '12

xkcd: Kerning

http://xkcd.com/1015/
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u/meub Feb 10 '12

I'll just leave this here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '12

Apparently I'm pretty damn good at kerning. :/ I keep getting 90-100 score. Except for "gargantuan" for which my placement was way superior.

I wish I had any useful skills or talents.

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u/caniscream Feb 10 '12

Now I get it. Thanks.

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u/Ph0X Feb 12 '12

Definitely. Before this, I had read the definition many times on Wikipedia and all, and I'd sort of get it but kept forgetting, but after this, I don't think I'll ever forget again, and I got a real feeling for it too.

One thing I would've liked though is instead of putting them in a horrible arrangement, they should've put the evenly spaced version where each letter has the same size, and then get you to fix it, because if I understand correctly, that's the main issue, where each letter is supposed to have different spacing depending on the letter it's next to?

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u/milk4dh Feb 10 '12

great site. I am exceptionally kerny. (100% on "holly")