I used to take my jalopy to Clint’s Auto. The sign was handpainted on the building with big, squared letters. The L and the I were a bit too close together in “CLINT’S”, and it always made my inner middle schooler laugh to see it.
MrMcCall 21 days ago [-]
FLICK is my ever-childish font-dependent fav.
hackernewds 21 days ago [-]
as a designer myself, I assure you more than half of these are intentional. we dream for these kinds of shenanigans
usrusr 21 days ago [-]
Or honest space bar accidents. Just as much "not kerning".
The "you have what it takes" is an excellent piece of positivity, because even typography laymen like me can clearly see that it was all done on purpose, giving a soft warm resonance with the message. "You're a good boy, you saw right through the message the expert set up for you"
eszed 21 days ago [-]
I'm clearly today's prize idiot, because I cannot spot the joke in the "You have what it takes" one. Can you please help?
Minor49er 20 days ago [-]
It's one of the few entries on the Bad Kerning blog
kilian 21 days ago [-]
Years ago I made https://fuckyeahkeming.com/ with the same premise. It had some good ones but after some time it’s just repeats of the same few words/letter combos for the funny ones: li becoming u, cl becoming d.
Other common issues are text being printed in the wrong font (using default letter shapes but the wrong kerning info), missing spaces (“me at” to “meat”) or poor tracking, which is excess space applied to all letters.
I stopped because it started feeling pedantic rather than funny.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424210
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42424759
Why does this blog with relatively little content mostly stolen from reddit.com/r/keming keep getting posted here?
2) Because the content is brutally simple to understand.
3) Because dad jokes resonate.
TL;DR) Because meme.
I do wonder whether that potential keming issue is accidental or a joke. Does anybody here know?
Are there any non-made-up terms? :)
* Whore ads for $100
* The penis mightier
“I’ll play your little game trebek!”
Idk what my point is really. That high and low art share the same source, possibly, but I 100% retconned.
That was a joke on The Benny Hill Show. (More than one time.)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34id0y
https://youtu.be/pz8aYiH_nRg
The "you have what it takes" is an excellent piece of positivity, because even typography laymen like me can clearly see that it was all done on purpose, giving a soft warm resonance with the message. "You're a good boy, you saw right through the message the expert set up for you"
Other common issues are text being printed in the wrong font (using default letter shapes but the wrong kerning info), missing spaces (“me at” to “meat”) or poor tracking, which is excess space applied to all letters.
I stopped because it started feeling pedantic rather than funny.
http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/