Good and Bad Letter spacing

Bad Letter spacing
Bad Letter spacing

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is an example of bad letter spacing. Where it says “Clean” for example the letters appear to be looser than the average text that may be slightly kerned.

 

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Good Letter spacing

This is an example of good letter spacing.  The letters appear to be tighter (kerned) in this image.  For example where it says “student government…” the letters seem to be a lot closer together.

 

good & bad letterspacing/kerning

The photo below is an example of “good” letterspacing/kerning: “Priority Mail.” The type below provides an appropriate amount of spacing within each letter. The letters are not touching or overlapping eachother. The adjustment of space between the letters are thoroughly balance and share proper amount of spacing below/above the two words.

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The photo below is an example of “bad” letterspacing/kerning: “How to Draw Comics.” The type below provides an inappropriate amount of spacing within each letter. The letters are touching and overlapping each other. Although the style of the typography seems appropriate for the material in this book, the letters are extremely tight and compressed and could use letterspacing. The words would be completely illegible and lost without the dark black stroke and blue shadows.

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I seen this sign while in the train. It does not show good letter spacing. In the word Brake, the letter “e” is very close to the letter “k”. Also there is very little space betweeen the words Emergency and Break compared to the spacing between the words bellow it.

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The NYPD car is an example of good letter spacing. If u look at where it says NYPD, the spacing between the letters is perfect. The letters are all evenly apart from each other.

Good vs Bad Kerning/letterspacing

As I crossed the street I came upon a message on a piece of wood with bad kerning. The reason it is considered bad kerning is because the P and O in the word ‘POST’ seem to be right on top of each other, as well as the S and T are fusing together. Yet the O and S are not connecting in any way. Also the I and L in ‘BILLS’ have space to spare but the B is right on top of the I.

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In the city there is a Dunkin Donuts shop with a sign outside listing the flavors of coolattas. The kerning in this picture is sharp as well as the letter spacing between the individual flavors. Therefore making this a good example of kerning/letters pacing

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Good /Bad Letter spacing !- Homework

The following image below is an example of bad letter spacing because if you look closely the first two letter the O,P are much closer together than the P and T. And also at the end the Y is a tad bit further than the R.

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The following image below is a great example of good letter spacing because the all of the letter are evenly spaced even though the letters are tightly together. And the spacing between the actual word are evenly spaced as well.

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