decent kerning in flash
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- nameless
Dear abby,
when will we get decent kerning in flash?
I hate blowing my project size through the roof by bringing in outlined groups of text, in a effort to get some decent kerning.
Am I missing something, or are you people pissed to?
sincerely,
-- kerned like an 8 car pile up
- Mimio0
No, it's a pisser for us all.
- nameless0
well good.
i always hate to thing that i am suffering alone. :D
- lvl_130
dynamic html text. is that any better? i guess i'm not a details man so i never noticed. then again, you could only use system fonts anyway.
- nameless0
not sure what you mean with that lvl. i'm asking for kerning in a layout and design.
Kerning as in: the space between the individual letters in a word.
Do your self a favor, don't learn what it is if you don't have to. Otherwise you will sit for hours adjusting, readjusting, scrapping it all and adjusting again. drives me nuts.
- atomica0
lol, excellent idea nameless... I'm gonna remember that.... maybe its the beer listening but it just sounds so profound....
- stimuli0
Kerning is too important to a designer to 'not learn it'. There's nothing frustrates me more than to see a badly kerned block of text or type, improper use of quote marks, hyphens instead om en and em dashes, tabular figures in blocks of text... sorry, maybe it's just me but a lack of basic typographic skills just goes to show how lazy some designers are.
Better step down from my soapbox...
- stimuli0
Nameless – I agree, it’s a pain in the arse but good on you for caring enough to do it the hard way and not give in to apathy.
- unknown0
'Kerning as in: the space between the individual letters in a word. '
what other kerning is there?
- nameless0
engage, read the posts and you will see what i ment by giving that explaination.
stim... i must admit i have not yet graduated to obsessing about em, en, m&m and the like. I suppose that's gonna be one more thing to drive me nuts really soon though.
thanks a bundle.
- Seph0
kerning, ravers kern, or is it gern?
- unknown0
lost me
- unknown0
i'm new on the flash scene, but it seems to me you could use freehand or illustrator for the text tweeking and then import it into flash as a work aroud?
- Seph0
Your from the states Engage. Gerning is a European activity I believe, it basically means pulling a stupid face, there are gerning competitions every year.
the expression was brought into a modern context by the explosion of the recreational drug ecstacy, ravers experiencing a 'rush' of ecstasy were prone to pulling facial expressions likended to gerning.
As you can see I too much time on my hands today....
- unknown0
I'm from Devon, England.
Just didn't know there were only different things related to the word Kerning?
- stimuli0
That's girning or gurning, not gerning - that's not even a word.
- Seph0
Alright then gurning, you spelling bee you, what difference does it make? it had already taken a completely absurd tangent.
Im feeling tangental.
- unknown0
you've got tanned genitals?
- stimuli0
Actually, gerning sounds good...
"Gerning: a designer's facial expression whilst examining bad kerning."
- stimuli0
Right, I'm off to phone the Oxford dictionary...