5 Kern Quiz

This quiz really gave me a good idea of how kerning works and how to do it accurately. The longer the words got, the more difficult it became to kern everything in a way that looked similar throughout the entire word. The hardest word for me was “gargantuan” because of how close together the letters fell. After taking this quiz and doing this activity, I really see the importance of kerning and the affect it can have on a word.

Overall, I think the kern quiz was a fairly accurate representation of what kerning is really like using illustrator. However, I don’t think there is necessarily one solution when it comes to kerning like there was in the quiz. There are certainly ways to kern that look better than the default. The most challenging words for me to kern in the quiz were AWAIT, YVESS, and WAVE.

Maddy Gaskill – Kern Quiz

I took this quiz twice and each time I ran into different problems with different words. The first time I was trying to make the word look perfect to me and not thinking how the shapes of the letters flowed together. The second time around I found it a little easier to realize how the letters flowed with each other which helped my score go up. The words I had trouble with were the ones that had serifs, more thicks and thins and the letters that were curved next to each other.

Take a screen capture (look up how to do it) of your highest final score as a blog post with a few words about which words were most challenging and the overall experience.

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