# Album art, kerning, and Pandora

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/album-art-kerning-and-pandora/319196>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [February 11, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/album-art-kerning-and-pandora/319196 "2011-02-11T20:03:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![graylensman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@graylensman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/graylensman)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/album-art-kerning-and-pandora/319196/1 "2011-02-11T20:03:20Z")

</div>

Listening to the Chill/Downtempo station on Pandora. A song came on, it’s okay. But when I looked at the displayed album art, I couldn’t believe my eyes.

The album name is “Derivatives”, and was set in a Helvetica-esque face, in all caps. The kerning between the V, A, and T was so loose you could fly the Death Star between them.

I put a thumbs-down on the song based on the design. I feel better for having done so.