Mind the Gap: Keeping your Kerning Right
with
Ben Kiel
Kerning is at once one of the more tedious jobs in typeface design and one of the more important things in polishing a typeface for release. This one day workshop will focus on kerning with MetricsMachine and cover strategies for reducing the tedium of kerning. Topics such as interpolating kerning, how best to put kerning data into your font for various platforms and uses, and proofing and testing kerning will all be covered.
About Ben Kiel
Ben Kiel works as a typeface designer and a partner at XYZ Type from a backyard studio shed in St. Louis, Missouri. Running a type foundry brings together Ben’s diverse background in graphic design, coding, letterpress printing, and type history. After studying graphic design and computer science at Washington University in St. Louis, he completed an MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in the UK. Ben began his career at House Industries, then ran a solo design practice for several years before co-founding XYZ Type. Ben has taught at MICA, Washington University, and Type@Cooper.