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[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 229 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] Enkers 99 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Is kerning the spacing between letters?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 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.

Between any typographical characters, but yeah, basically 🙂

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today

[–] brbposting 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago

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

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

Oh wow, thats very interesting!

[–] Delzur@vegantheoryclub.org 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] bmpvy@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

i will never see butterfly depictions the same again

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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