On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > 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).
That may be sound advice. And, thanks to you and others, it's established as a hypothesis in my mind. But the letterfit (there's that word again) of body text in the WordPress site I inherited and am reworking, is with no letter-spacing simply too tight. (I doubt that the font designer wanted it to look that way.) I have given it some letter-spacing (the least amount that made a difference in my browsers on my system) and that is not ideal either, but IMHO it is BETTER. I have a WordPress coach (ain't I special?) and he has viewed it on his PC, vs. my Mac, and called the page "perfect." Even allowing for the facts that he normally works with beginners, and is the personality type to use the word "perfect" in a casual fashion, that suggests to me that my letter-spacing is not a prosecutable offense. Can't help myself. I think line spacing and letter spacing are important in making text look "intentional" and not something spewed out by some Microsoft word grinder. And if that sounds angry or recalcitrant, I'm not. Just think some subjects deserve plain language. (Plus I know that when I shove my understanding out in public, it gets "moderated" and I learn.) Chuck M who is inordinately proud that for 3 messages in a row he has remembered to change the "To:" line from the poster to the list ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
