Nice Kern is a full-service communications design firm. Our recent experience includes branding, editorial, environmental graphic design and digital. We’ve analyzed site plans to determine a better navigation system, we’ve decluttered an editorial message for greater impact and we’ve listened to our client’s mission, distilling it to a beautiful mark. Responding to our client’s needs with appropriate solutions that reflect and enhance their message is our number one goal. We design from the inside out—starting with the client’s core mission, collaborating to strengthen it and then allowing the visuals to evolve into a tailored design solution, whether that be for a family of signs, a publication or a smart phone app.

To kern a word is to adjust the spacing between the characters in order to achieve
a visually harmonious result and optimal legibility. Our firm is named after this typesetting term because it speaks to the attention we give to the details and to the importance of getting them just right. With this approach, the beauty and clarity
of the whole is almost unavoidable, or so we believe.