Technique C8:Using CSS letter-spacing to control spacing within a word

Applicability

All technologies that support CSS.

This technique is not referenced from any Understanding document.

Description

The objective of this technique is to demonstrate how the visual appearance of spacing in text may be enhanced via style sheets while still maintaining meaningful text sequencing. The CSS letter-spacing property helps developers control the amount of white space between characters. This is recommended over adding blank characters to control the spacing, since the blank characters can change the meaning and pronunciation of the word.

Examples

Example 1: Increasing the spacing between characters in a word

The following CSS would add the equivalent of a space between each character in a level-2 heading:

The CSS

h2 {
  letter-spacing: 1em;
}

The HTML

<h2>Museum</h2>

The rendered result might look something like:

M u s e u m

Other sources

No endorsement implied.

MDN - letter-spacing

Tests

Procedure

For each word that appears to have non-standard spacing between characters:

Check whether the CSS letter-spacing property was used to control spacing.

Expected Results

Check #1 is true.

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