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Thanks Mike, from Tomko Design, for this iPhone “game” tip. The game title “KERN” says it all. And, if you’re getting tingly thinking about this, read on…

KERN is a minimalist typography experience, from the Formation alliance, challenging you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures!  Practice and prove your typographical acumen with a score that gives new meaning to point-size!

“The game looks like something you’d expect to come out of the famous Bauhaus design movement”  - iPhone Games Network Review ****

HOW TO PLAY:

A random type-centric word with a missing letter appears at a variable point size.  As the leading begins to shrink, you navigate the missing letter to the proper space and release it’s handle to lock it in place.  The placement accuracy is measured and your score is calculated based on the size of the type, the leading height, and the perfection of placement—all measured in points.  If you miss by too much and form an unnecessary ligature, one of your five ligature tokens will be lost.  Lose all five ligatures and your game is finished.  How many points will you Kern? 

 

(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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