Believe it or not, I can tell you how that happens. The person who did it doesn’t have Font X on his/her computer. S/he tells the layout program that she’s using X, and it kerns as though it’s X (say, INDD or Photoshop). That’s how you get that seriously funky font kerning.
I only know this because we get “PDFs” for conversion all the time, in which client X didn’t know that they have to embed the fonts that they used. (This happens a lot from Mac-based programs, like Pages writing to a PDF-writing program). So, we get an un-embedded font, that the PDF renderer attempts to render with a substituted font. And you get that weird-ass kerning. I have NO idea why anyone would do it on purpose.
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“It will keep you hooked until the last page.” As evidenced by the totally disinterested characters on the cover.
Also, half-Nagilum!
What if I want to be hooked after I finish it?
Oh, it’s a travesty, all right….
Spectacular kerning issues! How do you even manage to do that? It looks like every word was put together by hand, badly, one letter at a time.
Believe it or not, I can tell you how that happens. The person who did it doesn’t have Font X on his/her computer. S/he tells the layout program that she’s using X, and it kerns as though it’s X (say, INDD or Photoshop). That’s how you get that seriously funky font kerning.
Interesting! I have no idea why anyone would ever do that, but it’s good to know about. Thanks!
Weird, right?
I only know this because we get “PDFs” for conversion all the time, in which client X didn’t know that they have to embed the fonts that they used. (This happens a lot from Mac-based programs, like Pages writing to a PDF-writing program). So, we get an un-embedded font, that the PDF renderer attempts to render with a substituted font. And you get that weird-ass kerning. I have NO idea why anyone would do it on purpose.
That eyeball…
Can’t. look. away.
Can someone fill me in on the “Nagilum” thing? I’m kinda new here.
Nagilum is a Star Trek “The Next Generation” reference. An alien that appeared basically as eyes in space. You can google it.
Guy on the cover: “Once you go black, Hillary, you don’t go back.”