Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

Paragraph-Specific Letterspacing

The kerning and tracking values are “character-specific,” meaning you can apply them to selected characters. But sometimes you want to open up the letterspacing in an entire paragraph of text, a story, or an entire document.

Because letterspacing does not take into consideration any tracking or kerning or pair kern values, it is the fastest and most processor-efficient way for InDesign to adjust the space between lots of characters. This is the feature you want to use if you have a lot of text to open up or tighten. You won’t see the paragraph letterspacing value reflected in the tracking or kerning fields.

To adjust the paragraph letterspacing, use the “Justification” dialog box in either your style sheet options ...