I am in the midst of an extended kerning session (4 typefaces, 31 fonts) and listening to a lot of electronic-ish music, namely Two Lone Swordsmen, Junior Boys, Black Devil Disco Club, Chris Clark, Boards of Canada, Battles etc. I find the repetitious nature an excellent fit for kerning, it gets me into a rhythm, almost a trance.
So the question is, what do you all find good to listen to while kerning?
—K
There are some good suggestions among the comments to this thread at zenhabits.
I can’t listen to anything while I work on type or design. It is okay if I am doing home maintenance stuff but I get too distracted for even things like kerning. When I listen to music, I really listen or watch. My favorite music is opera so it is not so repetitive as pop music. I also like blues and R&B when I am driving a distance.
ChrisL
“Golden Bowls” by Karma Moffett.
It keeps me calm.
pbc
My listening habits are listed at Last.fm. Join the Typophile group.
Metal and Rock music mainly, but I’ll sample anything. I usually put a film on in the background instead of music, I find that relaxes me more.
Classical is playing at Peet’s right now. Would be great for that. On a side-note, I see it is in time with Eric West’s animated gif of the cat with the machine gun. What’s the word for that...something like oxymoronic...incongruent, I guess.
LOL. I read this a
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