Type session 2

OUGD505

Type Session

Kerning is the spacing between, 

In typography, kerning (less commonly mortising) is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual letter forms, while tracking (letter-spacing) adjusts spacing uniformly over a range of characters. In a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of characters all have a visually similar area.

The related term kern denotes a part of a type letter that overhangs the edge of the type block.

Kerning my name

our first task was to kern our name, because of the software when typing the spacing between the letters is all wrong and the word doesn't read correctly. The top one is how the software writes my name and below is how i have kerned it. This is done by looking at the largest space between each letter, finding the largest space then lets you change all the other spaces so they are the same. As can be seen below mine didn't need much kerning. 

Next we were given a sentence that we had to break into tow lines, shown below is the sentence, the correct way of doing this was where the natural pause was in the sentence, this then allows it to flow a lot easier and it reads a lot better. 

Next we were set the task of writing one two three and four but making it so we read it backwards from four, i misheard this so did it the wrong way round, but it can still be understood. I then repeated it correctly below, as be seen i changed the weight of each letter thinking this would work but as Graham correctly pointed out despite this we still dont read it four three two one, we actually see the number three first. And so he talked us through other stronger ways of dealing with this problem.

He then set us a task to show us these ways, we had to do it again but have it read in the correct order but we were not aloud to change the weight or size of the font. Below is what i came up with. Your eye is directed to all the space and then to the one because it is the most readable and legible, the other three numbers are squished together so our eye ignores these.

Graham then showed us other ways things could be read in the order you want.

Below we read this one three two four, because our eyes are drawn to the numbers that make most sense and that look readable to us.

The one below reads one three two four, again for the same reason as above. The four is always last because it is upside down, and this to our eyes is completely illegible, so if you want something not to be read put it upside down, such as terms and conditions.

Next we had a bulk of text that we had to make more readable. 

We firstly increase the spacing between words so it flowed and looked a lot easier on the eye.

I then made it into two columns so it was easier to read and not too long that the person got bored.

I then increased it to 3 paragraphs and made the text justified, one problem with doing that is the text because wider and gaps start to appear in the middle to it breaks up the text.

There are some ways to make it more readable you can increase the guttering or put a line down the middle so it acts as a barrier for the readers eye.

Below i also indented the paragraphs so there wasn't a huge white space