From Ironic Sans, a new typography term: "Keming" -- improper kerning.
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and what does Jimbo and Dolph have to say of this?
genius!
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?
This is unutterably brilliant. Which is not to be confused with "unuHerably brilliant."
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".
Ha ha, this is so fumy!
Excellent!
---One-time typesetter, so maybe I'm one of the "font geeks"!
OMG is that funny. Cafepress has mugs, too.
Oh, boy! A John D. Berry joke. Cool -- they're rare! Thanks, Cory.
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