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formationalliance.com - 2/17/2009

KERN - SPACE, THE FINAL FONT TIER

— formationalliance.com — KERN is a minimalist typography experience challenging you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling... word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures! Practice and prove your typographical acumen with a score that gives new meaning to point-size! (more) KERN - SPACE, THE FINAL FONT TIER

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technabob.com - 2/17/2009

kern: the game for typography nerds

— technabob.com — If you prefer to call capital letters “majuscules,” you probably aren’t the type to shy away from... words like kerning and ligature , either. And that’s okay, because there are games that cater even to you typography nerds, or ... (more) kern: the game for typography nerds

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KERN, the iPhone game John Gruber was born to download
Boing Boing Gadgets — KERN, the new typesetting game from Formation, asks that you line up a single letter in a falling word, gaining points the nearer you are to perfection. From the subject matter to the scoring pop-up that exposes the formula used to determine your points tally, this is probably the iPhone app most aimed directly between the eyes of chunky-spectacled design wanksters. (I'm buying immediately.) It's a buck on the App Store. [via Technabob] Gameplay video after the jump. (It's big.) KERN iphone game demo from Jason Franzen on ...

Kern - the iPhone game for font geeks
Tech Digest — Kerning, if you're unaware, is the process of adjusting the distance between letters in typography, and now someone's made a game of the process, and published it for the iPhone. It's called "Kern". It works a little like Tetris - you position a letter at the bottom, and a word falls into place around it. The objective is to get it as close as possible to a perfect kern. It's not easy, unless you have a perfect eye and a very steady finger. As you can imagine, the design is absolutely impeccable. It's enormously geeky, too, but that's not really going to put off hardcore typographers now, is it? Here's a video of it in action: ...