KERN is a minimalist typography experience challenging you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures. Practice and prove your typographical acumen with a score that gives new meaning to point-size.
When you begin the game, a random type-centric word with a missing letter appears at a variable point size. As the leading begins to shrink, you navigate the missing letter to the proper space and release its handle to lock it in place. The placement accuracy is measured and your score is calculated based on the size of the type, the leading height, and the perfection of placement—all measured in points. If you miss by too much and form an unnecessary ligature, one of your five ligature tokens will be lost. Lose all five ligatures and your game is finished.
Get really good and screenshot your high score to upload it to the KERN high score Flickr group.
You can buy KERN for $1.
KERN iphone game demo from Jason Franzen on Vimeo.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on February 23, 2009
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