PSA: I would like to impart some valuable knowledge about kerning and keming. Kerning is a typography term used to describe the process of spacing out a font to make it visually pleasing and easy to read.
fig. 1: “keming,” illustrated by me.
When type becomes too narrow, it can be difficult to read and even unintentionally misleading. Sometimes disastrously. This is called “Keming.” The name is damn clever and originated with this guy. See how the ‘r’ and ‘n’ of Kerning might, if crowded, look like “keming”? There you go. Clever.
fig. 2: “keming,” inadvertently illustrated via yimmyyayo.
Do you understand why I am bringing this up?
Keming: Don’t let it happen to you.
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The Thought Experiment 
May 29, 2011 at 1:14 pm |
You’re a whimsical genius.
May 29, 2011 at 10:27 pm |
Finally someone agrees
May 30, 2011 at 10:26 am |
Of course I do you cunning…er…clever genius.
May 30, 2011 at 11:12 am |
Another font might have helped, too.