A box appears around the letter after you select it. The different points around the box allow
you to adjust the character in different ways.
Note
The box corners and rotate widget you see may look different and that’s okay. The
figure was taken on Windows.
- Drag the upper-right corner of the box away from the center to make the letter a little larger.
Stop dragging when you see roughly 105% for H. Scale and V. Scale in the measurement label.
Notice that the width and height change proportionally together. You just adjusted the
horizontal scale and the vertical scale for the letter “R.” If you were to look in the Character
panel (Window > Type > Character), you would see that the Horizontal Scale and Vertical
Scale values are roughly 105%.
- Move the pointer over the rotate handle (the rotate circle above the letter “R”). When the
pointer changes ( ), drag clockwise until you see approximately -17° in the measurement
label.
