How to make letters more narrow?

vanbeugen · Mar 14, 2007

In the html below I want to make the letters more narrow. I read about Css-property font-strech but I cannot get the letters more narrow. Could someone help? I know about letter-spacing property, but that makes the space bewteen the letters smaller and I want to make the letters themselves more narrow. Or is there another way to achieve this?

This is the HTML:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">

<style type="text/css">
</style>

</head>

<body>

<H1>Communication Training</H1>
<H2>Communication Training</H2>
<H3>Communication Training</H3>

</body>

</html>

Vragabond · Mar 14, 2007

Use a different font? In any case, it is smart to always provide a generic font at the end of your font list. And if that generic font is slightly different to the font you've been using, it might cause a lot of trouble for you.

When designing websites, you will need to abandon the hope to design pixel perfect solutions. Opt for something that will look good across most browsers.

vanbeugen · Mar 14, 2007

Hi Vragabond,

Do you mean to say: it's impossible what you (I) want?

ChrisHunt · Mar 14, 2007

Dunno if that's what he meant, but it's certainly true.

The font-stretch property would be the one to use, if any browsers supported it. As far as I know, none of them do.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

Foamcow · Mar 14, 2007

Speaking typographically, messing with the appearance of fonts is always risky unless you really understand type.

Typography is an art. Someone, somewhere spent alot of time getting the shape of those letters just right. Altering that balance often leads to things that don't look great.

Generally, web fonts have been selected because of the way they work on screen. They are pretty much right, as it were.

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