I feel sorry for this guy/gal. Having a badly kerned tatoo on your back forever must be painful. If you like tatoos (I don't), I recommend reading sang bleu. Check www.bpfoundry.com.

At least he can't see the bad kerning.

Nick Cooke

Do you call this "kerning"? I would call it bad letterspacing or just metrics. "Kerning", according to my use of the word, applies to instances where between two characters the standard metrics need to be overrided. How do you use the word "kerning"?