This post came up following a conversation I had with Emilio Cobos — a senior developer at Mozilla and member of the CSSWG — about the last CSSWG group

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Recent discussions within the CSS Working Group revealed a significant issue with how the 'letter-spacing' property is rendered across different browsers. Despite the CSS specification stating that spacing should be applied only between characters, browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari implement it differently, causing inconsistencies and alignment problems, especially in multilingual text. Two proposed solutions include reworking the space distribution or giving developers control over spacing placement. Leaving the current implementation unchanged is also an option, though less likely.

Letter Spacing is Broken and There’s Nothing We Can Do About It… Maybe