The actual Glastonbury poster controversy is the kerning By Daniel Piper printed 17 March 23 Information Neglect Lana Del Rey.
The ‘huge’ Glastonbury information this week is that, apparently after a grievance from the artist herself, Lana Del Rey’s identify has been unsurreptitiously elevated in a brand new model of the poster for Glastonbury pageant 2023. However much less pop-centric designers are recognizing an altogether much less forgivable sin.
Del Rey is reported to have recommended on Instagram that she may pull out of the pageant the unique poster did not give her excessive sufficient billing to mirror her headline spot on the second largest stage – and a brand new model (beneath) options her identify within the requisite place. However sufficient about Lana Del Rey, let’s speak about your buddy and mine, kerning.
Designers have seen that the spacing between the letters on this factor is… a little bit everywhere. From EL Ton John to Rudiment AL, we’re discovering fairly a couple of artists on right here that we have by no means heard of.
Can we’ve got a chat about how dangerous the kerning on the @glastonbury poster is?! pic.twitter.com/7NIqPBZC1HMarch 16, 2023
“Appears to be like like a cheapie DaFont font, with sloppy kerning as commonplace,” one Twitter consumer feedback, whereas one other provides, “The kerning is misplaced. This can be a very nice font that’s completely mistreated.” Others in the meantime, have kindly recommended that the typeface could be trying to repeat the output of an actual letterpress, wherein letters are printed utilizing blocks.
Until Lana Del Rey speaks as much as demand a proof, we’ll in all probability by no means know fairly what the typographical intention (or lack thereof) was right here. For now, we’ll add it to the pile of Mildly Infuriating Kerning Incidents, the place it joins the likes of the brand new Avatar wordmark (opens in new tab), and that hilarious(ly dangerous) Twitter Blue brand.
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