User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: May 20, 2015/@comment-1605682-20150521010800/@comment-126761-20150521130105

To be honest, that's a really rather unusual way of writing a heading - I can't say I see why it has been written in that manner. If you want some space to the right of the word (before the surrounding border), padding would be more sensible, as it doesn't rely as much on outside influences.