The article explains it clearly: There is no kerning at all. The letters are simply spaced equally from the furthest edge and then the whole thing is centered. It's a perfect example of why kerning is important and how it makes typeface look better.
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Kerning is the typographic term for the spacing between letters or characters in a piece of text to be printed.
Keming is what it looks like when you fuck up the kerning.
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I would argue that monospacing a non-monospace typeface is a kerning decision, but it's a monumentally bad one. The fact that it's bad enough to make the news also shows that it simply looks wrong even to the untrained eye. To that end, good kerning isn't just an extravagance but a crucial part of typesetting. They screwed up here and that just makes it sad.
I agree with you. I'm just saying that "kerning" is the name of the process that they didn't do. I bet the maker hadn't heard of it before the world saw this stone, and they probably fired their craftsmen when they got cnc engraver because "how hard could it be?"
Tbh, i dont even believe he asked for such a low quality entombment, i think the rest of the group just hates he was so progressive for a pope and said he asked for this to spite him.