How do you stack up against a professional typographer?
While browsing my Facebook feed, I found a fun little game on the Internet thanks to my good friend, Doug Karr. The game pits you against a typographer to see how good you are at creating "pleasant and readable text" by distributing the space between letters of a word (referred to as kerning) presented to you on the screen.
The game is ridiculously simple to play. It is also mildly addicting.
I played several times and was finally able to achieve about an 80% match compared to what a professional typographer would have done. I felt pretty good about this until my 10-year-old son asked if he could try and matched 100% on his third try.
Try it for yourself. You can play the game here.
2 comments for this blog post so far...
October 28, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Katie
Uh, apparently I need to become a typographer, because I keep getting 90-100%!!! So fun…
October 29, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Patric Welch
Katie, that’s awesome! Maybe they should include this on that test your guidance counselor gives you in high school to tell you what career you should pursue!
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