The lack of manual kerning to avoid rivers of white space is something that I wouldn't even begin to know how to tackle in CSS. Maybe I'm just too muscle memory familiar with the tools in DTP vs CSS for Web, that I'm just not familiar with the proper CSS for it. The wysiwyg of DTP apps is like pure training wheels or a warm fuzzy blanket in getting work done
A large amount of and spans with letter-spacing or font-kerning can help, but no one’s going to do that (unless you go for an extremely fixed layout or engage JavaScript, which I would consider in poor taste for these purposes).
I concur on the warm fuzzy blanket of DTP software, personally.
exactly. that sounds like a pretty good description of hell to me. i much prefer highlighting the text, alt/option-left/right to adjust the kerning in real time.
this type of description of using CSS for DTP reminds me of using tables for layout before CSS. it was a bullshit solution waiting for something better. only, in this case, DTP software is already there and better. so why would someone do this to themselves?
I just worry that the growing generations don’t degrade typesetting quality too much… Not that it’s particularly stellar in the mainstream, but I sure hope it wouldn’t get even worse!
Luckily for the younger generations, there's no text to typeset in a tiktok video. It's not like they are reading text anyways. Everything now is a TL;DR or some other summary in short tweet like blurbs which may or may not even be a complete sentence. Any post with extra text providing the background or finer details is lambasted as being too wordy.
