Does text in Jetpack Compose have support for Kerning?

# compose

[dewildte]

Does text in Jetpack Compose have support for Kerning?

[colintheshots]

Is this Android? You can set letterSpacing in the TextStyle in AndroidX Compose UI.

[dewildte]

Is letter spacing and kerning the exact same concept?

[Chris Fillmore]

You could adjust the spacing of individual characters using AnnotatedString I suppose.

[francisco]

in your typography theme using TextStyle you can control letterSpacing (aka kerning, the spacing between the letters, the higher the number the bigger the gap)

val caption: TextStyle = TextStyle(
        fontFamily = roboto,
        fontWeight = FontWeight.Medium,
        fontSize = 12.sp,
        lineHeight = 16.sp,
        letterSpacing = 0.5.sp
    )

[francisco]

https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/text/TextStyle#letterSpacing()