![]() ![]() That said, for most documents most of the time, choosing a common class where this has been considered in advance (Koma classes and memoir have options for this or the NTG artikel3 class is a variant of article with non zero parskip) or using parskip package to adjust the settings in the standard classes works in a reasonable way. If you have a large \parskip and that is added to the space already added around display headings then they may look too spaced out, but conversely if you were to automatically suppress all the \parskip space near a section heading you could find that section headings are more closely spaced than just a normal paragraph break, which would be odd, so really the entire document design as implemented in the class needs to be reconsidered if paragraph spacing is changed. ![]() Note for section headings you probably want to choose some length based on some under specified notion of what looks good. Section headings come between paragraphs, so changing parskip adds space (that would be there if the heading were not present) that may or may not make the space around the heading look too much so you may need to adjust spacing around section headings to add less space, and so it goes on. List items are paragraphs so by default they will be affected, if you want them to not have extra space you need to reset their definition to add less space. To see why it is not such a simple question, consider some examples. the parskip package tries to make a reasonable guess at doing this for the standard classes such as article although as it notes in its documentation this is not really as good as designing a class with this option from the start. If on the other hand you just want to alter an existing layout that was not designed with an option for non-zero paragraph space, then you need to adjust whatever lengths need adjusting, that depends on the class, how many environments it defined. If you are designing a document layout which has visible space between paragraphs, you would start by setting \parskip and then specify space around headings, lists, math displays etc taking account of the paragraph space already added. The question (which only you can answer) is "what do you consider to be a paragraph?" You (or a class that you choose) need to change \parskip. All font files, whether we know it or not, contain some degree of kerning and we have the CSS font-kerning property to remove it. This is where kerning comes to the rescue! Kerning is literally defined as the spacing between letters. It a lovely font! However, there are a couple of points I’m not loving with this particular headline, specifically the spacing between a couple of letters, which makes things a little crowded: ![]() Take the following headline using Abril Fatface from Google Fonts: I often run into this one, especially when a design contains a highly customized web font that looks great in general, but might look funky when used in a certain context. Also, leave the don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style box unchecked of you’ll have no spacing between most paragraphs. If you modify the before and not the after, you’ll re-introduce the space after the header. I like leaving the before to zero and modifying the after. We’re going to cover a few of those in this post along with methods for how to deal with them. Now you can tweak the spacing between paragraphs. There are still plenty of situations today where adjusting fonts is needed to ensure the best legibility despite having all these fancy tools. I remember my mind nearly bursting with excitement when I discovered FitText.js and Lettering.js way back when. Web fonts have come a very long way since then and we now have tools to tweak the way fonts render in browsers. In response, I likely would have sent you an image file that contains the content instead to make sure everything looked the same in all browsers. Then you may have tried explaining to me the pains of cross-browser compatibility and how different browsers render fonts differently from one another. If you were developing sites in 2006, then you may have worked with a designer like me who was all up in your business about fonts not looking exactly the same in the browser as they did in mockups. ![]()
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