font-kerning

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

A propriedade CSS font-kerning controla o o uso da informação de kerning, que é, o controle de como as letras serão espaçadas. A informação de kerning é armazenada na fonte, e se a fonte é well-kerned, essa caracteristica permite que o espaçamento entre caracteres seja muito parecido, independente dos caracteres.

Example of font-kerning

css
font-kerning: auto;
font-kerning: normal;
font-kerning: none;

/* Global values */
font-kerning: inherit;
font-kerning: initial;
font-kerning: unset;
Initial valueauto
Aplica-se aall elements and text. It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line.
Inheritedyes
Computed valueas specified
Animation typediscrete

Syntax

Values

auto

This keyword defers to the browser regarding whether to use kerning. When the font size is small, font kerning may look strange and browsers will disable it. This is the default value.

normal

This keyword requires kerning to be applied.

none

This keyword prevents the browser from using the kerning information stored in the font.

Formal syntax

font-kerning = 
auto |
normal |
none

Examples

css
p {
  font-kerning: none;
}

Specifications

Specification
CSS Fonts Module Level 4
# font-kerning-prop

Browser Compatibility

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Chrome
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Opera
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Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
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Kerning Demo

HTML Content

html
<div id="kern"></div>
<div id="nokern"></div>
<textarea id="input">AV T. ij</textarea>

CSS Content

css
#nokern,
#kern {
  font-size: 2rem;
  font-family: serif;
}
#nokern {
  font-kerning: none;
}
#kern {
  font-kerning: normal;
}

JS Content

js
var input = document.getElementById("input"),
  kern = document.getElementById("kern"),
  nokern = document.getElementById("nokern");
input.addEventListener("keyup", function () {
  kern.textContent = input.value; /* Update content */
  nokern.textContent = input.value;
});
kern.textContent = input.value; /* Initialize content */
nokern.textContent = input.value;

See also