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Nov
08

kan kontrol kerning

letter_spacing

I’ve recently found that despite what I’ve heard in the past it’s possible to control the Kerning of net-text. How nice.

#headline {
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 28px;
letter-spacing: -1px;
}

http://www.usabilitypost.com/2008/10/30/css-tip-improve-the-look-of-your-headlines-using-letter-spacing/


2 Responses to “kan kontrol kerning”


  1. 1 Paz
    November 11, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    Nice one! What you’re referring to however is not kerning but letter-spacing (what it says on the tin). The only way I can imagine to do kerning with CSS would be to letter-space two individual letters or assign each letter an individual letter-spacing value. That could be a rather tedious exercise and is probably only worth the effort for headlines that use critical kerning pairs (AW, LT, IL, VA, etc.). Unless you’re an absolutely dedicated type geek of course.

  2. 2 davidgillett
    November 11, 2008 at 9:40 pm

    Yeah I knew it was letter-spacing but enjoyed the headline too much and I thought I could get away with it, should have known better!


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