Kern Type

A blog post about typography. Yes, again.

Kern Type is a beautifully designed, short, online game about kerning (If you have an iPad, you’ll enjoy the game even more). And what’s kerning?

According to Wikipedia:

Kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.

We shouldn’t confuse kerning with tracking.

Kerning is the adjustment of the space between individual letter forms vs. tracking which is the uniform adjustment of spacing applied over a range of characters.

I enjoyed Kern Type so much that I decided to brag a bit. Here’s my score: