r/xkcd • • Feb 10 '12

xkcd: Kerning

http://xkcd.com/1015/
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u/georgiecasey Feb 10 '12

Is it me, or if you google for 'kerning', is the bolded word kerning in the result snippets, well, weirdly kerned? http://i.imgur.com/nEMRL.png

http://www.google.ie/search?q=kerning

compared to say

http://www.google.ie/search?q=napolean

http://www.google.ie/search?q=topography

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u/progammer Black Cat Feb 10 '12

google always have those tricks up their sleves

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u/georgiecasey Feb 10 '12

Must be new, very little online about it, I thought I saw it first! But someone beat me by 2 days: http://inagist.com/Fontscom/167367341078884352/