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[–] [email protected] 235 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Damnit, I'm going to see this everywhere now, aren't I?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Is kerning the spacing between letters?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It's the visual spacing between letters, which usually involves some letters that have curves or corners to actually not strictly follow the spacing. For example the legs of the letter A might stick out a tiny bit in certain fonts. This gives text a more visually balanced kerning.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Between any typographical characters, but yeah, basically 🙂

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That bottom depiction really makes it obvious that butterflies never have their wings like that

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

I can't wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Oh wow, thats very interesting!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Didn't see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago... Thanks for the info

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

i will never see butterfly depictions the same again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Neat, the alive ones look way more similar to moths.