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Kerning takes a professional. Wanna try?

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
11-10-2011
design

Instruc­tions
Your mis­sion is sim­ple: achieve pleas­ant and read­able text by dis­trib­ut­ing the space between let­ters. Typog­ra­phers call this activ­ity kern­ing. Your solu­tion will be com­pared to typographer’s solu­tion, and you will be given a score depend­ing on how close you nailed it.

 

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I love typog­ra­phy, let­ters and design­ing with type. I use to set type for a num­ber of years so I had prac­tice long before there was Page­maker, Quark, or InDe­sign. My scores were usu­ally like the one cap­tured below.

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all touchpads are not created equal

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
24-03-2010
culture

From a con­sumer per­spec­tive, what mat­ters most isn’t the per­for­mance of the touch­screen itself, but how well a touch­screen per­forms in com­bi­na­tion with its oper­at­ing sys­tem and user-interface to deliver an expe­ri­ence that is sat­is­fy­ing over­all. - labs.moto.com

Here’s a video to give you an idea how dif­fer­ent devices perform.

We liked these tests and were a bit shocked at how pathetic the Motorola Droid and Black­berry Storm 2 per­formed. Every­thing needs to work in con­cert… here Apple has the clear advan­tage. Soft­ware and hard­ware work extremely well together.

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