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96: Why Some Fonts Are Better Than Others

Kotaku Splitscreen

Kotaku

Leisure, News, Tech News, Video Games

4.6849 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

What makes a font good or bad? Bethany Heck, a design director at Vox Media and typographer, joins today's show to talk about the nuances of font design. First, Kirk and Jason talk Mario + Rabbids before jumping into news like L.A. Noire Switch (19:54), Apple announcements (25:38), and Pewdiepie's racial slurs (36:33). Then Bethany hops on the show (48:16) to talk about the best and worst video game fonts, serifs vs. sans serifs, and what exactly "kerning" means. Kirk and Jason close things out with a brief chat about getting ready to run the Destiny 2 raid blindly (1:08:15). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of Kataku's Swiss Screen, the only podcast where you travel through space, shooting aliens, and hunting for exotic gear.

0:16.6

Today we're talking about surprisingly good Mario and Rabin's Kingdom Battles and introducing

0:21.2

a new weekly feature to the show.

0:23.1

Then we'll get into the news of the week, which includes L.A. Noir coming to Switch,

0:26.9

Apple announcing some phones, and the controversy over PewDie Pies, Racial, Slur, and DMCA

0:32.1

copyright strikes.

0:33.5

Next, we'll bring out Vox Media's Bethany Heck to talk about what makes video game fonts good and bad.

0:39.1

And we'll close things off with some Destiny 2 Ray Talk, which Kirk and I are very excited about.

0:46.0

All right, let's go.

0:58.5

And we are back for another episode of Kataku split screen.

1:08.0

After several weeks of craziness, we are back on a normal schedule or about as normal as we get for this time of year.

1:09.0

My name is Jason Shire.

1:14.2

I am the news editor at kataku.com. I am joined as always,

1:21.9

or almost always, by Kataku's editor-large, Kirk Hamilton. Hello, Kirk. Hello, Jason. How are you this fine, fine Wednesday? I am good. It is fall. It is September. Football is back. My book is out. Things are

1:29.2

exciting. I am happy. I'm looking for a new apartment, which is interesting times. New York City

1:35.9

apartments are kind of a pain, and you have to deal with brokers who are quite a handful to deal with.

1:42.6

That's a whole thing in New York, huh? Even in San Francisco, I never had to deal with a rental broker.

1:47.6

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

1:48.5

Yeah, it's a thing.

1:49.4

You have to pay them a giant fee that comes out to usually around one-month's rent.

1:54.5

And since one-month's rent is super expensive here also, you wind up throwing down just like, or ridiculous this amount of money.

2:02.0

What a racket? Sometimes you have to pay an application fee. We were hearing from an apartment we were looking at yesterday. They asked us to pay a

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