[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian... http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fon

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-varian... http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-kerning-prop http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-kerning-prop https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/word-spacing https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/word-spacin... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/letter-spacing https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/letter-spac... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#text-justify0 http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#text-justify0 It's not that HTML/CSS was created with a disregard for typography, it's simply that typography was not the intended purpose of HTML. CSS (and HTML 4 & 5) is largely an attempt to allow principles of typography to be applied to HTML without breaking the original use (after all, LaTeX and typography in general requires a very rigid definition of the output for it to work properly, which you can never have with the browser as your target platform; in itself something very different from what was available when HTML was originally designed).