Wrapping character “Y” in span, increases the margin to next character

Question

In my current project, I need to wrap every single character of a sentence within a span, so I can measure the distance from the beginning of the sentence up until the chara

Answer 1

Any mono-spaced font may help as each character is the same width.

You could also try this:
https://css-tricks.com/forums/topic/characterletter-widths-in-css/