I tried this a couple of times, but the first and last letters seem so far apart that this becomes less about "make it look good" and more about "make it look less terrible". I can make the letters look great together with the first letter, which results in nearly a full letter's worth of space between the penultimate letter and the last. Perhaps this just represents an artifact of drawing the font extra-huge, but these fonts all feel like they need condensing to look decent.
People often track too tight because it looks good when it's large type at a close distance. However, this is absolutely terrible for legibility in real life conditions where you either look at small type from close or large type from far away.
Hi, I just wrote to you on Twitter before seeing this thread. I agree with you here, but the issue is that your default setup is close, large type :) Zooming with the browser does indeed help. Perhaps you should call attention to the fact that one can do that?
Good kerning can be done with tight and loose letter grouping. I much prefer the loose tracking here as it give much greater precision to the final submission.
I was originally thinking the same, but I think it's because I was considering everything to be body text in a paragraph. If you think of them as potentially word marks, it seems valid to use tight OR wide overall spacing, really more of a stylistic choice.
