{"id":3478,"date":"2017-04-19T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T12:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2020-02-09T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T09:59:52","slug":"check-kerning-of-fonts-with-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/check-kerning-of-fonts-with-waves-3478\/","title":{"rendered":"Check kerning of fonts with \u00bbWAVES\u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1029\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning.png\" alt class=\"wp-image-3479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning.png 1029w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-409x200.png 409w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-806x394.png 806w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-600x293.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1029px) 100vw, 1029px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1029\" height=\"503\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201029%20503%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt class=\"wp-image-3479 lazyload\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201029%20503%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 1029w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1029px) 100vw, 1029px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning.png 1029w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-409x200.png 409w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-806x394.png 806w, https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning-600x293.png 600w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/04\/waves-kerning.png\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This time only a small tip. To get a quick overview about a font\u2019s kerning, you can use the word WAVES. If there are large not-so-nice large spaces between letter pairs, like for Crimson Text in the screenshot above, you maybe should search for an alternative font.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found the tip in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.typewolf.com\/checklist\">chargeable typography checklist from Typewolf<\/a> \u2013 but, for example, they also use the word <a href=\"http:\/\/typedrawers.com\/discussion\/1661\/testing-consecutive-kerning-pairs-for-consistency-vs-kerning-single-pairs-alone\">in a thread on typedrawers.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time only a small tip. To get a quick overview about a font\u2019s kerning, you can use the word WAVES. If there are large not-so-nice large spaces between letter pairs, like for Crimson Text in the screenshot above, you maybe should search for an alternative font. I found the tip in the chargeable typography [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpf_show_in_dewp_planet_feed":false,"flobn_post_versions":"","lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"wp-worthy-pixel":{"ignored":false,"public":null,"server":null,"url":null},"wp-worthy-type":"normal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5897,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/5897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florianbrinkmann.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}