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They fucked up the kerning on Pope Francis’s tomb. FR A NCISC VS. “There is no historical or aesthetic reason why the kerning is so poor.”

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Big Al

What a grave error.

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Glenn Fleishman

There are ways to use computer-controlled sandblasting to execute a digital design on stone. Looks very much like this, including a typeface choice that no stonecutter would use. There are a lot of expert stonecutters remaining in the world!

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Jonathan Dobres

It's not often that kerning makes headlines. Well, when you think about it, kerning makes all headlines. Anyway, we live in weird times (new roman).

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Lorem Ipsum

I'm waiting for Dan Brown's next book to debut - "The Kerning Code"

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gidge

Here for all jokes!

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Joshua Leto

I've seen commentary (on social media, so not sure about the sources) that says this is intentional. It seems extremely odd otherwise.

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