On Oct 28, 2011, at 10:34 AM, ChrisIzatt wrote: > So you don't agree that letter-spacing should be able to be adjusted on text > that isn't large? Why?
Letter-spacing with modern fonts is something for ornamental effects, as those modern (digital) fonts have build-in kerning tables - and more often nowadays, optimised for various type engines on different platforms. For blocks of body text, manually kerning is in 99% of the cases detrimental. It may look ok on one platform, with one rendering engine; it will more often than not fail on other platforms (Win XP is a complete headache, the default browser on Android devices is nothing to be proud of, in terms of text-rendering - at least those devices I've seen). Then you run into the device resolution issue, on low-resolution devices (anything lower than 300ppi is low), there aren't enough pixels to paint something perfectly at sub-device pixels level. It is a nice thing to play with for special effects on headings or very short runs of text that require a special treatment to attract attention. Things where you'd use larger font-size anyway. Philippe -- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
