New typography term: Keming (improper kerning)

From Ironic Sans, a new typography term: "Keming" -- improper kerning. Link (Thanks, Alex!)

[#1 posted by Takuan , February 26, 2008 10:37 PM]

and what does Jimbo and Dolph have to say of this?

[#2 posted by Dave Bullock (eecue) , February 27, 2008 12:57 AM]

genius!

[#3 posted by Tom , February 27, 2008 10:59 AM]

Silly word. The only people who'll get the joke are font geeks, and according to font geeks no font anywhere is ever kerned properly. To them, "kerning" and "keming" have exactly the same meaning. So who needs the extra word?

[#4 posted by Barry Foy , February 27, 2008 1:09 PM]

This is unutterably brilliant. Which is not to be confused with "unuHerably brilliant."

[#5 posted by themindfantastic , February 27, 2008 1:14 PM]

A similar situation happens to me, but its not kearning at all... but rather people who enter my name into databases usually get my last name wrong changing the last two letters "rn" to "m".

[#6 posted by assumetehposition , February 27, 2008 3:35 PM]

Ha ha, this is so fumy!

[#7 posted by Thad E Ginataom , February 27, 2008 3:57 PM]

Excellent!

---One-time typesetter, so maybe I'm one of the "font geeks"!

[#8 posted by adam , February 27, 2008 4:25 PM]

OMG is that funny. Cafepress has mugs, too.

[#9 posted by Gunn , February 27, 2008 9:01 PM]

Oh, boy! A John D. Berry joke. Cool -- they're rare! Thanks, Cory.

Eileen Gunn