My graphic design teacher had assigned us to do a kerning game. At first I had no idea what kerning was or what it meant besides providing space in between letters to make them more spread out... (mostly to fill up space). But through the game I realized that it is more than that. Kerning has to be balanced between all letters. And most of the time our brains can space things out pretty well but it seems that the computer can do it better. Kerning interested me so I, of course, decided to google it. The definition of kern in google is:
verb
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1.
adjust the spacing between (letters or characters) in a piece of text to be printed.
Next was a wikipedia cite about kerning. They also informed me that in a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of characters all have a visually similar area. And that there are kerning values for every different letters. So after finishing this kerning game my score was an eighty-six. Of course needing to improve on my even spacing between letters.
