style guide
Letter Spacing
The letter-spacing property controls the amount of space between letters in your text, and works in much the same way as the word-spacing property.
Some subtle but pleasant effects can be produced by separating letters slightly more than the default value of normal or 0.
p {letter-spacing:0.05em;}
Notice the subtle but pleasing separation of the letters in this paragraph. A nice effect often used to relax the style of text.
p {letter-spacing:-0.05em;}
Letters can also be pulled together by declaring a negative value for letter-spacing.
This effect is sometimes used to squash text into a smaller area, but should not be used for chunks of body text.
| letter-spacing | |
| Values: | <length> | normal | inherit |
| Initial Value: | normal |
| Applies to: | all elements |
| Inherited: | yes |
| Percentages: | N/A |
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