letter-spacing

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

Theletter-spacing attribute controls spacing between text characters.

If the attribute value is a unitless number (like128), the browser processes it as a<length> in the current user coordinate system.

If the attribute value has a unit identifier, such as.25em or1%, then the browser converts the<length> into its corresponding value in the current user coordinate system.

Note:As a presentation attribute,letter-spacing also has a CSS property counterpart:letter-spacing. When both are specified, the CSS property takes priority.

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Examples

Controlling SVG letter spacing

html

<svg viewBox="0 0 400 30" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">  <text y="20" letter-spacing="2">Bigger letter-spacing</text>  <text x="200" y="20" letter-spacing="-0.5">Smaller letter-spacing</text></svg>