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Folks Are Amused By These 30 Kerning Fails That Show How Crucial Character Spacing Is
Being positive towards anything can be difficult, especially in 2021. However, it's forever a great idea to bathe your brain with some good thoughts once in a while. It's not a secret – our world has been through a lot, and society can be particularly toxic, which is why it's important to put love above everything. Everyone deserves respect and appreciation... except for whoever was responsible for creating these kerning fails.
Jokes aside, the spacing between individual letters plays a crucial role in general – but especially when you're designing a project for print. Without kerning, things can end up looking a little rough and will most likely completely change the meaning of the text.
By all means, it's not ideal when it happens, but it will probably make someone laugh. These Reddit users decided to share character spacing disasters that they noticed on posters, clothes etc. The subreddit was created in 2012 and currently has 248K members. Here we've gathered some of the best ones!
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#1
Limit Of Ten
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#2
Can Adult Also
#3
*Whale Emoji*
#4
Sounds Savory...
#5
Bean Outsider
#6
The Entry Of The Carps
#7
What A Terrible Day To Have Eyes
Marciano Junior 3 years ago
I liked the" Xt ra Shot" if put some accent in the "r" it will look like a lot Italian :)
#8
You Had Meat Coffee
#9
Well That’s A Long Word
#10
#ronics2020
#11
Absolutely Noink In This Area
#12
Kidsor Kidults
Strawberry Pizza 3 years ago
I feel like Kidsor Kidults is a specific person who has wronged this manufacturer, and now the manufacturer won't let them anywhere near their products.
#13
I'm A Gine?
#14
Тhis Sign That Came With A Nutcracker My Mom Recently Bought
#15
Thewotldbel
#16
Nearly Had A Hemorrhage Trying To Read This
#17
I Think This Belongs Here..
#18
I Love A Good Activitie Shub, Me
#19
Has This Been Done Yet
#20
Starw Arst O Re
#21
S E R I O U S L Y
#22
Dentists Notice
#23
Listen Up Kids! The Word Of The Day Is: "Productis"
#24
Federallaw Requires Thatthisarea Bevacated Whenneeded Bywheelchair Users
#25
Oh Microsoft…
Momma Dubb 3 years ago
There are some fonts that are created to be dyslexic- friendly. I wonder if this was intentional. Either way, awesome!
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Devil's Advocate 3 years ago (edited)
Why is Microsoft being blamed exactly? Looking at the size of everything, the screen is clearly set to zoomed in nonsense
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
I've had students write like this and show their phone font as why it's okay. No, no it isn't.
#26
Antioxid Ant
#27
Bemy Angel
#28
But Not So Proud Of That Keming, I Hope
#29
P Lease•••
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What do you think ?
Ray Heap 3 years ago
As a typesetter I cringe at most of the printed material you see today, but these make me scared.
Toothless Feline 3 years ago
Most of these are technically not kerning problems. Kerning is adjusting the space between a pair of letters. A lot of these are spaces missing between words, which is a different kind of problem. Some are tracking fails (tracking is the spacing between all letters in a line), primarily caused by bad justification.
Andrew Vince 3 years ago
I never saw the movie advertised at my local cinema "TOM BRAIDER" So I still don't know who he is.
Viola Yarrow 3 years ago
I once saw a place called “laptop lab” but the sign really said “laptoplab”
socalledracing 3 years ago
All this crap seems almost made up... But I do own pair of china made hiking boots where the label reads "SOF TSHELL" tho
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Taken individually, think a lot of people don’t notice these “out in the wild,” but a whole slew of them means either that the country’s manufacturing sector is gone and they sent their seconds off to less well-off country, or their educational system is totally broken.
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Ray Heap 3 years ago
As a typesetter I cringe at most of the printed material you see today, but these make me scared.
Toothless Feline 3 years ago
Most of these are technically not kerning problems. Kerning is adjusting the space between a pair of letters. A lot of these are spaces missing between words, which is a different kind of problem. Some are tracking fails (tracking is the spacing between all letters in a line), primarily caused by bad justification.
Andrew Vince 3 years ago
I never saw the movie advertised at my local cinema "TOM BRAIDER" So I still don't know who he is.
Viola Yarrow 3 years ago
I once saw a place called “laptop lab” but the sign really said “laptoplab”
socalledracing 3 years ago
All this crap seems almost made up... But I do own pair of china made hiking boots where the label reads "SOF TSHELL" tho
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Taken individually, think a lot of people don’t notice these “out in the wild,” but a whole slew of them means either that the country’s manufacturing sector is gone and they sent their seconds off to less well-off country, or their educational system is totally broken.
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