{"id":15452,"date":"2012-03-22T16:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T21:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=15452"},"modified":"2024-01-14T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T16:34:37","slug":"noisestash-kerning-do-you-have-what-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/03\/noisestash-kerning-do-you-have-what-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisestash: Kerning. Do You Have What It Takes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kerning is an important element of all designs including any form of typography. For the uninitiated kerning is how you space letters. As the always relevant <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1015\/\">XKCD <\/a>points out bad kerning can be quite irksome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This little <a href=\"http:\/\/type.method.ac\/\">web based<\/a> game from <a href=\"http:\/\/method.ac\/\">Method Of Action<\/a> will let you test your chops at how good or bad you are at determining what is good kerning. I am apparently mediocre with a 78\/100. How did you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kern.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"728\" data-attachment-id=\"15453\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/03\/noisestash-kerning-do-you-have-what-it-takes\/kern\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kern.jpg?fit=989%2C728&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"989,728\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Ray&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1332449535&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kern\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kern.jpg?fit=602%2C443&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kern.jpg?resize=989%2C728&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15453\" title=\"kern\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kern.jpg?w=989&amp;ssl=1 989w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kern.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kern.jpg?resize=602%2C443&amp;ssl=1 602w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kern.jpg?resize=180%2C132&amp;ssl=1 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/type.method.ac\/\">Method of Action<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you&#8217;ve got an eye for design? This fun game challenges you to master the subtle art of kerning \u2013 the spacing between letters. Don&#8217;t underestimate it \u2013 bad kerning can be an eyesore!  Up for the challenge? Click in and see how you stack up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[1241,2824,2826],"class_list":["post-15452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noisestash","tag-design","tag-kerning","tag-typography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/kern.jpg?fit=989%2C728&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelghY-41e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15452"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23319,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions\/23319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}