Tweaking Your Text

The text is usually the largest part of most publications, and if the text doesn’t look good, the publication doesn’t look good. Of course, you need to start by choosing a clear, easy-to-read font for your story—for example, you wouldn’t use a script font or any other fancy font because large blocks of such fonts are difficult to read. Then you can improve the overall look of your text by tweaking some subtle but important details: namely, the scaling, tracking, and kerning of the characters. Sometimes it’s the small details that make a big difference.

Improve the Look of the Text

  1. Select the text whose appearance you want to improve.

  2. Choose Character Spacing from the Format menu to display the Character Spacing dialog box.

  3. Adjust the percentage if you want to scale—that is, shrink (condense) or stretch (expand)—the width of the selected characters and their spacing without changing the height of the characters.

  4. Select a type of tracking, or enter a percentage, to adjust the distance between all the characters of the selected text.

  5. Select a type of kerning, and the amount of kerning, to fine-tune the space between two selected characters without changing the dimensions of the characters themselves.

  6. Select the Kern Text At check box, and set the minimum point size for character pairs that tend to look "gappy" because of their shapes (for example, VA, WA, To, Te) so that they’ll always be automatically kerned.

  7. Click OK.

    Improve the Look of the Text
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