{"id":24,"date":"2011-12-11T05:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T05:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/?p=24"},"modified":"2011-12-14T04:55:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:55:03","slug":"kerning-spacing-and-shaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2011\/12\/11\/kerning-spacing-and-shaping\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerning, spacing and shaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming educational website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.method.ac\/\">Method of Action<\/a> features two online typography games to discover <a href=\"http:\/\/type.method.ac\/\">kerning and spacing<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/shape.method.ac\/\">letter shaping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/type.method.ac\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Kerning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.method.ac\/img\/kerntype.png\" alt=\"Kerning\" width=\"290\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/shape.method.ac\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Shaping\" src=\"http:\/\/www.method.ac\/img\/shapetype.png\" alt=\"Shaping\" width=\"290\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both of them take less than 15 minutes to complete, unless of course you start over and over to improve your score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming educational website Method of Action features two online typography games to discover kerning and spacing, and letter shaping. Both of them take less than 15 minutes to complete, unless of course you start over and over to improve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2011\/12\/11\/kerning-spacing-and-shaping\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[13,15,10,14,12,11,9],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kerning, spacing and shaping &ndash; Light is beautiful<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2011\/12\/11\/kerning-spacing-and-shaping\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kerning, spacing and shaping &ndash; Light is beautiful\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The upcoming educational website Method of Action features two online typography games to discover kerning and spacing, and letter shaping. 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