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and small caps. The synthesized characters are
produced by altering the characteristics of the
default character.
The red characters have a synthesized version of small
caps applied.
Spacing text
Fine-tuning or copyfitting text often involves
changing the spacing between characters and
paragraphs. You adjust spacing to improve
readability and achieve visual balance. When
letters, words, or lines are too close together or
too far apart, text becomes difficult to read.
There are different ways of adjusting spacing:
- Kerning refers to the repositioning of two
characters to balance the optical space
between them. For example, kerning is
often used to decrease the space in
character pairs such as AW, WA, VA, or
TA. Kerning makes letters appear balanced
and proportional, especially at larger font
sizes.
To kern text in CorelDRAW, click the Te x t
tool , and select the characters that you
want to kern. Click the Character button
in the Object properties docker. Type a
value in the Range kerning box.To kern text in Corel PHOTO-PAINT, click
the Te x t tool , and select the characters
that you want to kern. Click Object ` Te x t
` Character formatting. In the
Character formatting docker, type a
value in Range kerning box.Text without and with kerning- Character spacing, which is also known
as letter spacing, allows you to control the
spacing between characters in a block of
artistic or paragraph text.
To adjust character spacing in CorelDRAW,
click the Te x t tool , and select the text
that you want to modify. Click the
Paragraph button in the Object
properties docker. Type a value in the
Character spacing box.To adjust character spacing in
Corel PHOTO-PAINT, click the Te x t tool ,
and select the characters that you want to
modify. Click Object ` Te x t ` Character
formatting. In the Character
formatting docker, type a value in the
Character spacing box.A block of text without and with character spacing- Word spacing lets you change the
spacing between words. It's quite useful
for decreasing the extra spacing that’s
inserted between words in fully justified
text.