Hi, "\kerncharacters" doesn't have an influence on interword space in current context version. Is this intended? Steffen ------- \definehead[TopLevel] [chapter] \setuphead[TopLevel] [style=\bf,textstyle={\kerncharacters[.75]}, align=flushleft,alternative=paragraph] \starttext \startTopLevel[title={This is a test}] text \stopTopLevel \stoptext