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wheedwacker · 21-03-2007, 19:24

I hear tons of people in this forum saying that fonts have bad kerning.

What fonts actually have good kerning?

oli · 21-03-2007, 19:44

Ones you pay for !

wheedwacker · 22-03-2007, 00:23

which ones?

Herr Kurm · 22-03-2007, 05:09

opentype fonts (optical kerning vs metrics). What software are you using?

wheedwacker · 22-03-2007, 17:56

indesign

Keenen · 22-03-2007, 18:00

One to avoid...

steveb · 22-03-2007, 18:06

LOL - that simply HAS to be intentional, a bit like French Connection United Kingdom's logo FCUK

Herr Kurm · 22-03-2007, 18:11

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Originally Posted by wheedwacker

indesign

Roam around in the upper toolbar, you´ll find the kerning settings there (default is metrics, setting it to optical DOES improve things a lot, kerning headlines in big point sizes does still requires using hair etc spaces). Of course try looking at Type - Glyphs too and from the little triangle in the upper toolbar there is a Opentype submenu, check it out.

Herr Kurm · 22-03-2007, 18:13

haha, MEGAFUCKS

John Good · 23-03-2007, 17:11

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Originally Posted by wheedwacker

What fonts actually have good kerning?

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even a font with a natural good kerning must be retreated.
a good kerning is not something you buy, it's something you have to work on.
And it has to be made on purpose.

steveb · 23-03-2007, 17:25

And it's something you don't learn in three weeks as part of a graphics course. It's something you learn either by setting metal type by hand over years or with a very trained eye in an excellent typesetting application on a platform which allows it.
Which means that you under 40s using InDesign on a PC, not knowing anything else, may be missing out on something.

Herr Kurm · 23-03-2007, 23:59

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Originally Posted by steveb

setting metal type

Im going to do this on thursday so I can piss on the rest of the mortals

steveb · 24-03-2007, 03:54

It's excellent fun and there's nothing quite as fascinating as seeing on paper the results of your own manual typesetting, although I guess people who did it for a living grew jaded.
(Do you never sleep?)

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wheedwacker competitionmaster 2.0 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA Posts: 1,451	which ones?

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wheedwacker competitionmaster 2.0 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA Posts: 1,451	indesign

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Keenen Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 179	One to avoid...

22-03-2007, 18:06	#7 (permalink)
steveb 389 ppm and rising Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Järvenpää, Finland Posts: 5,475	LOL - that simply HAS to be intentional, a bit like French Connection United Kingdom's logo FCUK

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Herr Kurm bloody peasant Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Tallinn, Estonia Posts: 2,697	haha, MEGAFUCKS

23-03-2007, 17:25	#11 (permalink)
steveb 389 ppm and rising Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Järvenpää, Finland Posts: 5,475	And it's something you don't learn in three weeks as part of a graphics course. It's something you learn either by setting metal type by hand over years or with a very trained eye in an excellent typesetting application on a platform which allows it. Which means that you under 40s using InDesign on a PC, not knowing anything else, may be missing out on something.

24-03-2007, 03:54	#13 (permalink)
steveb 389 ppm and rising Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Järvenpää, Finland Posts: 5,475	It's excellent fun and there's nothing quite as fascinating as seeing on paper the results of your own manual typesetting, although I guess people who did it for a living grew jaded. (Do you never sleep?)

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