- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 14:21:22 -0400
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 08:40 -0700, Brad Kemper wrote: > On Jul 3, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com> wrote: [...] > Another use case is graphic designers using letters spacing as a > visual effect, or to control typographic "color", usually in a > heading, pull quote, or other short(-ish) blurby bit of text, which > may or may not wrap to a second or third or fourth line (not so much > for longer paragraphs). Designers often want to do things that book > publishers may frown on. This can include negative letter spacing or > spacing of 1 en or more. Yes, type arranged like this (obviously not possible with metal type but it became popular with the introduciton of phototypesetting) is called set kissing. Apple set whole books in Garamond with a few percent of negative letterspacing. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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