This spacing determines how close adjacent characters are to each other.Īdvertisement Next, in the Home tab, click the small expansion icon in the bottom-right corner of the Font group to launch the Font Dialog Box, or just press Ctrl+D (Cmd+D on Mac). Unfortunately, not all characters appear the same width when read on a printed page. Depending on the characters, this can cause an illusion that two characters are spaced too far apart, when in reality they follow the standard spacing conventions for the typeface. This problem normally appears when the left character in a pair has a stroke (a line) that travels diagonally from left to right. Kerning is a typographical term describing the process of moving letters closer together, in an effort to overcome the illusion of too much space between letters. This makes the text both more appealing and more readable. To change kerning automatically, perform the following steps: In Word, kerning can be adjusted either automatically or manually.
Select the text whose kerning you want to adjust.Choose the Tools option from the Font menu.Make sure the Character Spacing tab is selected.You’ve probably looked at a cafe sign or a car logo and thought that ‘something’s a little off’. The Character Spacing tab of the Font dialog box. Click on the Kerning for Fonts check box.Įither the letters seem too close together, or the spaces between them are too wide.Adjust the character point size to indicate when Word should start adjusting kerning.In most cases, this type of kerning will be acceptable.
There may be instances, however, when you want to manually adjust the kerning between two characters. In these cases, you can manually adjust kerning by following these steps: For instance, you might want to create some special effect for the characters.