URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91324550/kerning-on-pope-francis-tomb-is-a-travesty
It really is quietly beautiful. But atop that marble is a tomb inscribed with the name “Franciscus.” Or what—due to terrible spacing between letters, known as kerning—reads something more like “F R A NCIS VS.”
“That would be the most boneheaded rookie mistake you can imagine (pun intended),” he writes. [Christopher Calderhead, editor and designer of Letter Arts Review] suspects the work was “farmed out to a run-of-the-mill tombstone company.”