Not to sure what you consider the correct way to space. My opinion - maybe you should take a second look at some of you overlapping spacing which to me seems crowded and not really any easier to read, some even harder to read. Just my thoughts after after 23 years of designing.
Submitted by rstachura on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 12:49.
I always turn my type upside down and mirror image it before kerning. I teach this to my students. It's much easier because you are no longer looking at characters but the positive and negative shapes. Kern it, then mirror it back and turn it right side up! Easy! KG
"If you're looking at a computer screen, enlarge the type as much as necessary to get a more accurate representation of the actual outline of the characters as well as the space between them. Just make sure you can still see the entire word."
It's actually easier to see evenness and unevenness in letterspacing when all three letters are in your range of vision without moving your eyes. I would caution against enlarging beyond the size of the examples on this page.
...I hope the "HEAVENLY" illustration wasn't intended as a before-and-after example. In the last "HEAVENLY" the spacing between H-E and A-V is dreadful! It's a great technique, though, which I think many of us have employed without realizing it. Thanks!
Not my kind of Spacing
Not to sure what you consider the correct way to space. My opinion - maybe you should take a second look at some of you overlapping spacing which to me seems crowded and not really any easier to read, some even harder to read. Just my thoughts after after 23 years of designing.
kerning
I always turn my type upside down and mirror image it before kerning. I teach this to my students. It's much easier because you are no longer looking at characters but the positive and negative shapes. Kern it, then mirror it back and turn it right side up! Easy! KG
kerning
"If you're looking at a computer screen, enlarge the type as much as necessary to get a more accurate representation of the actual outline of the characters as well as the space between them. Just make sure you can still see the entire word."
It's actually easier to see evenness and unevenness in letterspacing when all three letters are in your range of vision without moving your eyes. I would caution against enlarging beyond the size of the examples on this page.
The Three Letter approach
You're the best.
Thanks for sharing the wisdom of the Masters with us.
Great technique, but...
...I hope the "HEAVENLY" illustration wasn't intended as a before-and-after example. In the last "HEAVENLY" the spacing between H-E and A-V is dreadful! It's a great technique, though, which I think many of us have employed without realizing it. Thanks!