Kerning anyone?

Even letters deserve a spacious life.

For those who've never needed to know, kerning is the space between letters. In some more agricultural word processing applications it is referred to as 'letter spacing'. In typography, it refers to adjusting the space between characters, especially by placing two characters closer together than normal. Kerning makes certain combinations of letters, like WA, MW, TA, and VA, for example, look better.

Not all people feel it's necessary to adjust the kerning values applied to some letters. Others, however take things way, way too far.

Here's an occasional spotlight on what happens when people no longer care.

A few years back I remember a Bridgestone tire ad where an old bloke says at the end, 'some people don't deserve tires' because of the way some people treat their 'rubber'. This pic from a restaurant in Victoria Park simply proves that some people perhaps don't deserve letters!