Kern Type, The Kerning Game

I did much better this time than I did the last time this was posted. The trick is to pay attention to the negative space more than the letterforms themselves; if you visualize the black pixels as the meaningful content, it's usually straightforward to see where things are out of balance.

I liked this, although I felt a little bit of resentment over the fact that the "correct" answer is a typographer's solution -- as if no other typographer could possibly disagree.

Hmm. Crashes Firefox 25.0.1 instantly on OSX 10.6.8

85/100

I really like the idea behind this side. It neatly shows the difference between proper and improper kerning. It also showed me that I am much more likely to kern certain types correctly naturally.

87/100. Very interesting game, it definitely helped me start to understand why some people get so upset about incorrect kerning. Would have been nice to see a running total score throughout.

Aw man. I only got 87/100. And I thought I was a decent kemer!

Only 79/100, but I think the scoring is a bit off---it seems to judge the total divergence, when it really ought to look at each pair of letters separately.

95/100. I thought the second-to-last was hardest. Serif/sans-serif didn't make as much of a difference as I expected.

93/100. The one with small caps was tricky -- small caps fonts generally have wider letterspacing, which threw me off for a bit.

90/100, and I agree with jawns that it should be agreed upon by multiple typographers, not just one.

This is very, very pleasing visually.

79/100

This game doesn't work like kerning works. The game lets you re-space letters between letters at fixed positions on the left and right. Kerning is about the spacing of all letters.