Specifying spacing between characters
You can adjust the amount of space between text characters with
Kerning options. Kerning affects the amount of space to the right of
one or more characters. You can tighten kerning to place characters
closer together, and loosen kerning to space characters farther apart.
You can apply kerning settings before typing, or change the kerning
for one character, a selection of text, or an entire text object.
Canvas can also adjust letter and word spacing for paragraphs fol-
lowing minimum, maximum, and desired guidelines that you set. See
Adjusting letter and word spacing on page 28.560.
Note: Canvas does not apply kerning to text characters based on
kerning pairs defined in a particular font. You can kern individual
characters by placing the insertion point and using the Type palette or
the Kerning submenu to tighten or loosen kerning.
The Kerning submenu lets you choose a standard kerning amount:
Very Tight
Tight
Normal
Loose
Very Loose
You can interactively kern characters in half-point increments using
the Tighten and Loosen commands.
You can also set a fine kerning amount using the Configure Fine
Kern command (see To set the fine kerning amount, page 28.548).
Then use the Tighten Fine and Loosen Fine commands to kern char-
acters by the specified amount.
On the Character tab of the Type palette, you can use the Kerning
option to tighten or loosen kerning by an amount you specify.
Default kerning
Kerned manually
Headlines often need manual
kerning for visual balance
Kerning options