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What’s with the tone? It’s pretty easy to look up what kerning means and thus get the joke. So why would it be lost on people? Why do you revel in the fact that you can do the elitist wink, wink, nudge, nudge “I know something you don’t know!”
Yeesh. Reminds me of the condescending nature of those design stickers. Sorry, didn’t mean to jump all over you - I just get fed up with jargon worship sometimes.
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February 28th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I agree… very clever and creative. I love the subtlety and the fact that it will be lost on so many.
February 28th, 2008 at 11:55 am
That’s really great. I shared it with some other typesetters at my office.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
hahahaha!
Totally nerdie, love it
February 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Brilliant.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Very cute! I like it a lot. However….
Hey Charlie Bing,
What’s with the tone? It’s pretty easy to look up what kerning means and thus get the joke. So why would it be lost on people? Why do you revel in the fact that you can do the elitist wink, wink, nudge, nudge “I know something you don’t know!”
Yeesh. Reminds me of the condescending nature of those design stickers. Sorry, didn’t mean to jump all over you - I just get fed up with jargon worship sometimes.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Awesome!
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 am
Hey FrogPrince… didn’t you see the smiley!? Sheesh.
I’m not revelling in anything: I just think it really is a very inside joke… and I think it was likely meant as such.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
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