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

by Robin Williams
September 2005
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 56m
English
Peachpit Press
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Letterspacing Chart for InDesign

KERNING applies when the insertion point is flashing between two characters. The kerning value is actually applied to the glyph on the left.

Auto pair-kerns and Metrical kerning: Default

Optical kerning: Use when a font has minimal pair kerns or when mixing typefaces.

Click between two characters after applying Optical kerning to see the exact value in parentheses.

Manual kerning: Insertion point is between two characters.

Add space:Option RightArrowAlt RightArrow 
Delete space:Option LeftArrowAlt LeftArrow 
x5 increment:Add the Command key (Mac) or Control key (PC) to the above

TRACKING applies when more than one character is selected.

Tracking: Adds to the manual kerning (if any) and auto pair-kerns.

Same shortcuts ...
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