Re: should we remove the kerning property in favour of font-kerning?

Am 31.05.2012 um 14:36 schrieb Cameron McCormack:

> David Dailey:
>> By the way there are instances in which illustrators have set kerning to negative numbers for certain pairs of glyphs to intentionally overlap certain characters for artistic effect. That would be a nice addition.
> 
> That is definitely possible with a negative letter-spacing value in combination with turning off automatic kerning with font-kerning:none (when that property is implemented).

Agreed. In WebKit the 'kerning' value is just an extra letter-spacing, so its really redundant.

Cheers,
Niko

Received on Friday, 1 June 2012 08:41:25 UTC