KernType a kerning game

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Instructions
Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to a typographer's solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it. Good luck!

WAVE

TypefaceGotham Black
DesignerTobias Frere-Jones
Released2000

Type

TypefaceGaramond
DesignerClaude Garamond
Releasedc. 1540

holly

TypefaceFF Zine Slab Black Italic
DesignerOle Schäfer
Released2001

Await

TypefaceRotis Semi Serif Bold
DesignerOtl Aicher
Released1988

Yvess

TypefaceSabon Small Caps
DesignerJan Tschichold
Released1966

Roissy

TypefaceFrutiger 55
DesignerAdrian Frutiger
Released1975

Quijote

TypefaceBaskerville Italic
DesignerJohn Baskerville
Released1757

gargantuan

TypefaceFF Meta Black
DesignerErik Spiekermann
Released1991

Toronto

TypefaceDidot
DesignerFirmin Didot
Released1784

Xylophone

TypefaceSyntax
DesignerHans Eduard Meier
Released2000
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