Competitive kerning game

Kern Type is a competitive kerning game that invites you to nudge type until it's laid out real nice and kentucky.

(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Kern Type, the kerning game [type.method.ac]

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE: design • game

More at Boing Boing

Ants and Stars: Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic visit the Sardinia Radio Telescope in Italy

The Snowden Principle

Ambiguity

T h is s o un d s v ery f u n, p rob ably bec au se I’ m s o g o o d a t it!
MadMolecule

“Real nice and kentucky”?
- marilove
  
  I’ve heard that phrase before! I rather like it.
  
  Found this: http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html
  
  Douglas Adams! Awesome. Truly awesome.
  
  KENTUCKY (adv.)
  Fitting exactly and satisfyingly. The cardboard box that slides neatly into an exact space in a garage, or the last book which exactly fills a bookshelf, is said to fit ‘real nice and kentucky’.
  - MadMolecule
    
    Cool! I’ve never heard that phrase before. Perhaps because I live pretty close to Kentucky, so it’s not an abstract word around here.
Frank W

I didn’t get anywhere near 99%.
Guest

Borderline OCD? Check.

I was born to play this game. *twitches*
lakelady

I thought this would be easy but I really didn’t expect to get 100% on most of them. And I’m not even in the graphics field (hmmm, maybe I should be)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BOOM27DBLMZQIJVK4BQLE7K5YA Nagurski

I would just like to thank all of the people who have been doing the kerning for me all this time, while I typed away, blissfully unaware. If I had to kern for myself, I’m afraid I would induce headaches.
kernkraftwerks

I have nothing amusing to add. Except, perhaps, that this may well make up for never having been able to find a mug at Disneyland with my name on it.

-Kern Sutton
- franko
  
  who names their kid “Bort”??
mjsergey

Kottke is gonna be on this like white on couscous.
Kernit the Font

I for one approve of this game.
Nicholas Packwood

Effortless 100%s. For once, a game I am very, very good at. If any of you knew Mother Adams at Nepean High School in the ’80s, you will know why.
Gemma

I got better scores when I squinted/blurred the text. Who knew there was such an art to kerning?
buddhathing

So disappointing. I thought this was going to involve slowly bending nude NY co-eds over bar-stools in their breakfast nooks as the late-afternoon sun spills into their apartments, then gently nudging apart their legs to juuuuust the right angle before capturing their images in beautiful black-and-white. But I guess ‘Kerning’ is something different.
N M

Got 79 out of 100. :I
Ambiguity

Yes, and let’s hope that none of those protestors brought their smart phones with them. We wouldn’t want them to be frittering away their time when they’re supposed to be, er.. focusing on sitting there!
SamSam

Actually, I got 89%, so I guess it was the remaining 11% that destroyed me. #OccupyKerning
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CHSSLIBJKD2WK4JWHWATQDNAWI D

Listen to Sgt. Hulka.