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Ah, that's quite clever! Upload as svg and let people kern the letters. Right now I'm using it to get people interested in my upcoming project [Method of Action]( http://method.ac/ ), an online course on design for programmers.
I'll sign up if it goes over concepts that will help me design better!
In a past life I was a design major so here's a tip for kerning letters. Kern letters in groups of three, then step back and look at whole word, repeat until it looks balanced. Oh, and a bonus tip the number 1 and l (lowercase L) almost always have too much space to the left of the character, I see so many designs with '2011' badly kerned.
As a developer, this seems like something that should be handled automatically by a typeface.
Also, if you ever designed a typeface (not very likely) then this is a skill you absolutely need.
I tried this a couple of times, but the first and last letters seem so far apart that this becomes less about "make it look good" and more about "make it look less terrible". I can make the letters look great together with the first letter, which results in nearly a full letter's worth of space between the penultimate letter and the last. Perhaps this just represents an artifact of drawing the font extra-huge, but th…
People often track too tight because it looks good when it's large type at a close distance. However, this is absolutely terrible for legibility in real life conditions where you either look at small type from close or large type from far away.
I tried this a couple of times, but the first and last letters seem so far apart that this becomes less about "make it look good" and more about "make it look less terrible". I can make the letters look great together with the first letter, which results in nearly a full letter's worth of space between the penultimate letter and the last. Perhaps this just represents an artifact of drawing the font extra-huge, but th…
Also, scored 93. Woo!