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KERN - SPACE, THE FINAL FONT TIER

— formationalliance.com — KERN is a minimalist typography experience 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! (more) KERN - SPACE, THE FINAL FONT TIER

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KERN, the iPhone game John Gruber was born to download
Boing Boing Gadgets — KERN, the new typesetting game from Formation, asks that you line up a single letter in a falling word, gaining points the nearer you are to perfection. From the subject matter to the scoring pop-up that exposes the formula used to determine your points tally, this is probably the iPhone app most aimed directly between the eyes of chunky-spectacled design wanksters. (I'm buying immediately.) It's a buck on the App Store. [via Technabob] Gameplay video after the jump. (It's big.) KERN iphone game demo from Jason Franzen ...

KERN: A Typographer’s Dream (or Nightmare) Game
Touch Arcade — FORMation Alliance’s new iPhone game KERN [App Store] is a bit of a curiousity, but one that seems certain to build a dedicated fan base amongst designers. The gameplay involves properly aligning a letter into its proper place in a word: 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 its 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 ...

Kern - the iPhone game for font geeks
Tech Digest — Kerning, if you're unaware, is the process of adjusting the distance between letters in typography, and now someone's made a game of the process, and published it for the iPhone. It's called "Kern". It works a little like Tetris - you position a letter at the bottom, and a word falls into place around it. The objective is to get it as close as possible to a perfect kern. It's not easy, unless you have a perfect eye and a very steady finger. As you can imagine, the design is absolutely impeccable. It's enormously geeky, too, but that's not really going to put off hardcore typographers now, is it? Here's a video of it in action: ...