On Mar 4, 2011, at 3:18 AM, Charles Miller wrote:
>> Don't play at pretending to be a type designer. Do not letterspace text.
>> body {
>> /*letter-spacing:0.05em; delete */
>> }
>> ~d
>
> I'll interpret that as saying that I would be pretending because the web
> doesn't allow type design in any meaningful sense. That's useful to hear.
The web certainly doesn't allow type design - it does allow to design with type
though. As noted, there are multiple limitations, and more so at small
font-sizes. The low resolution of computer screens, the various ways browser
round off fractional values, the limits of type rendering engines (anything
older than Win 7 on the windows side of things...).
In general, setting any kind of letter-spacing on body text is a poor idea -
and font designers do know their job, in general (yes, I know, there are crappy
fonts out there).
Philippe
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