How do you even mess up the kerning this bad

[k_purpose@post.lurk.org]

@hannah
Hi, Nges!

[apophis@yourwalls.today]

@hannah hi, NGEs!

[itsjennotgoblin@goblin.camp]

@hannah lmao at it being T N ROMAN for the font just bc that's a great joke, but yeah that spacing around the A is wild. How did that even happen?!?

[denofearth@mas.to]

@hannah @ItsJenNotGoblin
A local example near me. Sadly the sign broke and the new one has lost its je-ne-sais-quoi.
https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth/111055082490033014

[apophis@yourwalls.today]

@hannah @ItsJenNotGoblin for real, a NCIS vs. [there is a lacuna in the text; we will need more evidence as to which leading court case is being cited here]

[sapphicgiraffic@mouse.photos]

@breakfastgolem @hannah killing you with my mind powers, reply below if you feel anything

[neko@goblin.camp]

@hannah that's just the innovative part

[aschmitz@ostatus.lardbucket.org]

@hannah I'm not sure how to feel about it, but I'm reasonably sure they had HINGES set in a font with serif'd "I"s, saved out to something without embedded fonts (probably PDF / PostScript), and then got this fallback font replacement with the letters starting in the same places and nobody verifying / fixing the fallback font. (However, in that case you'd technically expect Helvetica as the PS fallback but this isn't quite that, so it might be a cheaper-to-license alternative.)

[jan_leila@mspsocial.net]

@hannah someone named nges is gonna shit themselves when they see that at the store

[breakfastgolem@goblin.camp]

@SapphicGiraffic @hannah haha nope nothi-

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@hannah I was going to reply with a voice memo where I pronounce "nges" as a word

[unlofl@mstdn.social]

@hannah "excuse me, do you have any low nges in stock?"