28.10.2011 5:00, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
Letter-spacing with modern fonts is something for ornamental effects,
> as those modern (digital) fonts have build-in kerning tables
Mostly, but all-uppercase text may benefit from some added spacing. In principle, fonts could have all uppercase combinations as kerning pairs, but I don't think they do. I don't favor all-uppercase case, but many people use it
For blocks of body text, manually kerning is in 99% of the cases detrimental.
And very awkward to do in CSS. There's the extra problem that old versions of IE (I guess up to IE 7, based in testing with the different modes of IE 9) do not add spacing after the last character of an element to which letter-spacing is being applied, while other browsers do. So you might need to use margin properties (for elements containing individual letters) rather than letter-spacing.
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