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.
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#12How about a slider to scale the spacing between characters and also letting me move the first and last characters?
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#13Disappointed that I got 86/100 but this reminds me of sitting in front of a Mac in college obsessively adjusting the distance between Y and o.
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#14Thanks for the ego stroke... 91/100! I'd much rather play this than solitaire. :) edit: typo
I got 100/100 four times, but I had to squint a lot. :)
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#15In 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.
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#16nicking an idea from a friend on IRC: you should set this up as a service for like $5 to crowdsource kerning for logos
GREAT idea
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#17Please let me deselect letters while I'm kerning them. I find it hard to see the spacing with one letter in bright blue.
You should be able to deselect them by click anything else, if it doesn't work let me know what browser you're using.
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#18nicking an idea from a friend on IRC: you should set this up as a service for like $5 to crowdsource kerning for logos
A related idea is the Distributed Proofreaders, a website that crowdsources proofreading of OCR'd public domain books. Unfortunately, proofreading is not very "gamifiable".
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#19nicking an idea from a friend on IRC: you should set this up as a service for like $5 to crowdsource kerning for logos
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.
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#20Please let me deselect letters while I'm kerning them. I find it hard to see the spacing with one letter in bright blue.
You should be able to deselect them by click anything else, if it doesn't work let me know what browser you're using.
For the first three or so I could de-select by clicking elsewhere, but then it no longer worked. My Google Chrome version string is "14.0.835.202 (Official Build 103287) m". I'm currently on a Windows machine.