Tracking and kerning

Tracking

The spacing between characters (tracking) in a paragraph of any alignment can have a subtle impact on the reader. Publisher allows you to experiment with the letter spacing in your text.

Kerning

Kerning is normally applied where two large, adjacent characters look over- or under-spaced due to the shape of the characters, and is used to reduce or increase the space between the pair of characters.

By default,Publisher applies the kerning tables that the font designer has set for the font. This will often require manual kerning (especially in titles) to ensure that all characters appear evenly spaced.

Metrics-based kerning is supported which is based on tables in the font file.

To adjust tracking:

• Select a range of text.
• From the Text panel, tap Expand next to the Bold/Italic/Underline/Strikethrough section to access the Positioning section, then choose a Tracking value.

To adjust kerning:

• Make an insertion point by tapping between two characters in your text.
• From the Text panel's Character Positioning section, choose to enable Kerning Override and set an adjacent value. By default kerning is automatically applied to characters. Positive values give expanded kerning, negative values give condensed kerning.