- From: fantasai via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 02:08:30 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
> Line height (line spacing) to at least 1.5 times the font size; > Word spacing to at least 0.16 times the font size. Tracking defaults to zero, and it would be very weird to set it to 0.15em for all content (even English content). It's not just that it would break all ligatures... it would be unnaturally loose text. Similarly, word-spacing should be whatever the font says the space character is, not that plus 0.16em. Overriding the font designer in this way seems like it would be problematic, if it's not a very specific user's preferences. (See [comparison](https://www.software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0A%3Cstyle%3E%20body%20%7B%20display%3A%20flex%3B%20%7D%20p%20%7B%20max-width%3A%2040em%3B%20padding%3A%200.5em%3B%20margin%3A%201em%3B%20border%3A%201px%20solid%20gray%3B%20%7D%3C%2Fstyle%3E%0A%3Cbody%3E%0A%3Cp%3EIn%20our%20discussions%20on%20Text%20Appearance%20and%20accessibility%2C%20much%20of%20the%20discussion%20relates%20to%20what%20recommendations%20and%20standards%20we%20should%20suggest%20to%20ensure%20readability%20and%20flexibility%20for%20text%20presentation.%20This%20includes%20text%20layout%20features%20like%20margins%2C%20line%20spacing%2C%20word%20spacing%2C%20justification%2C%20hyphenation%2C%20line%20breaks%2C%20capitalization%2C%20and%20so%20on.%20We%20realized%20during%20this%20discussion%20that%20we%20don%27t%20have%20enough%20information%20about%20how%20some%20of%20the%20properties%20mentioned%20may%20differ%20or%20have%20nuance%20in%20different%20languages%20or%20scripts.%20We%20did%20discuss%20how%20this%20particular%20area%20was%20not%20addressed%20fully%20in%20WCAG%202%2C%20and%20how%20we%20can%20make%20sure%20we%20avoid%20that%20in%20future.%0A%3Cp%20style%3D%22letter-spacing%3A%200.15em%3B%20word-spacing%3A%200.16em%22%3EIn%20our%20discussions%20on%20Text%20Appearance%20and%20accessibility%2C%20much%20of%20the%20discussion%20relates%20to%20what%20recommendations%20and%20standards%20we%20should%20suggest%20to%20ensure%20readability%20and%20flexibility%20for%20text%20presentation.%20This%20includes%20text%20layout%20features%20like%20margins%2C%20line%20spacing%2C%20word%20spacing%2C%20justification%2C%20hyphenation%2C%20line%20breaks%2C%20capitalization%2C%20and%20so%20on.%20We%20realized%20during%20this%20discussion%20that%20we%20don%27t%20have%20enough%20information%20about%20how%20some%20of%20the%20properties%20mentioned%20may%20differ%20or%20have%20nuance%20in%20different%20languages%20or%20scripts.%20We%20did%20discus.).) What motivated these recommendations? > Line height (line spacing) to at least 1.5 times the font size; I know that some languages need more spacing than others, but I _think_ this is probably fine for paragraph text? @r12a would know if any typically use less. But tighter line spacing is expected (and therefore should be allowed) for large text like headings, where the extra spacing ends up quite large in absolute terms, and therefore interferes with the heading's visual coherence when it breaks across lines. > Spacing following paragraphs to at least 2 times the font size; Some paragraphing styles use indentation rather than spacing, seems like that should be accommodated? -- GitHub Notification of comment by fantasai Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss/issues/46#issuecomment-2611392560 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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