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Kern For Fun On Your Phone
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 19 February 2009, 11:44 Permalink Comments (11)
It's been a while since we've trawled the iPhone app store, but trawl it we have and found, among other things, this graphic designer-aimed game, KERN. The idea of the game is to accurately position the missing letter from a varyingly sized, type-oriented word as it falls down the screen. A kind of Tetris for typophiles...
Footage of us having a go. Mmm... need some more practice!
Here are some more professional looking screengrabs:
Whilst the gameplay of KERN doesn't stand up against that of other iPhone games such as the excellent Rolando, it is nevertheless encouraging to see playful apps made by graphic designers for graphic designers. KERN is, in fact, one of a series of design-oriented games available as iPhone apps by US design studio FORMation. And the more astute will notice, it's designed on a grid using a clean an minimal combination of Helvetica Bold and Caslon only. But of course...
11 Comments
Is there an App that informs you when you've crossed the work / life threshold? Perhaps it could detect games like this and automatically suggest suitable punishments.
2009-02-19 11:54:25
this is why i don't want to be a graphic designer anymore.
2009-02-19 12:08:21
KERN is defiantly my app of the week - rolando is awesome but I'm getting a bit stuck and now wish id got the lite version instead
2009-02-19 14:20:19
You are what you do. Why separate work / life?
2009-02-20 07:44:57
It would be better if you could use the camera to photograph examples of bad kerning. And then correct them to sate the little typographic OCD gremlin that lives in all of us.
Still, I'd hope I could find better things to do for R&R.
2009-02-20 10:01:32
Ditto Gre
2009-02-20 12:37:17
Gre, do you think you can just stop!
2009-02-20 13:42:49
What on earth?????????
2009-02-23 09:09:39
Not sure about this one
2009-02-24 09:56:35
Yup... I've been thinking about leaving the industry and joining the Coast Guard. Thank you for pushing me one step closer to the ocean.
Leave it at the office you OCD jack-offs.
2009-02-27 21:42:27
looks great, when will you make one for the google android app market?
2009-03-07 23:04:41
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