Kerning bug with champion names in loading screen

A Ocean·7/5/2016, 10:18:03 AM·1 votes·495 views

So, did you ever wonder why Teemo looks like "Te emo" in the loading screen?

Well... I guess I found the cause for that. This actually seems to be a bug with champion names in general, and it happens with every champion/skin that uses kerning. For those of you who have no idea what that is, kerning is something that puts letters with fitting shapes closer together. (Wikipedia can explain it better, I think.) Teemo is a good example, in most fonts (just not this one) the first e is shoved slightly under the T because there's a free space. Also happens with the capital letters W, V and (I think) Y.

So the first e is shifted slightly to the left to fit under the T. That's where the bug comes in. Only the first letter is shifted to the left. The rest of the word isn't and thus there's a gap between the first and the second e. Kerning was apparently coded as simply shifting one letter to the left instead of reducing the space between the two letters, which causes this bug. I'm not a typographer, but I'm pretty sure this can be fixed quite easily.

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