Even space inbetween characters

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December 3, 2016
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I want to fix 1mm space evenly in-between characters like below e.g.

A n e e s h

even space inbetween characters

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cbishop01

Inspiring

You could add this to a character Style so that way anytime you want it done you just click on the desired Character Style and it does all your adjustments for you. Below are just a few examples. You can adjust a bunch of settings in character styles. Then all you have to do is have your Text/Text Frame you want to change and click on the Leading/Tracking/etc.. if you want to do this and not CHange Font size Create a character Style with the Fonts/Leading/Tracking ETC... and leave the* Point Size empty* then it will just change the Fonts/Leading/Tracking ETC... without changing font size.

rob day

Community Expert

You might also consider using a mono or fixed spaced font, (i.e, the Andale Mono system font)

Monospaced font - Wikipedia

Obi-wan Kenobi

Legend

All what you talk about is called "kerning adjustment"!

Again a great [and terribly redoubtable!] tool written by Peter Kahrel : Scripted custom kerning tables | Peter Kahrel

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rob day

Community Expert

All what you talk about is called "kerning adjustment"!

You may be right that the OP is simply trying to improve the font's visual spacing, which would happen via kerning. But I read it as wanting a meterically even amount of white space between the characters. Typewriter-like-monospaced font characters have more consistent widths—an I takes a similar amount of space as an M—so the whitespace between would also be more consistent and kerning pair adjustments would be less important and probably not needed.

Andale Mono and Eureka Mono vs. Myriad

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

I would have a complete different solutions as my co-speakers had.

Adjust the paragraph style in the section Justification, which can help you to adjust spaces between characters and words and equalize them without loosing the original context.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Aneesh,

use kerning and change values until the character pairs are one mm away to each other.
You may position a helper rectangle 1 mm wide at the edge of one character.

It's up to you what distance 1 mm does exactly mean. Measured at the base line? Like in my example?
Or do you prefer something differently? Maybe the average white space between the characters?

Depending on the used glyphs and typefaces a distance of 1 mm could mean something different as you may see in my example with the character pairs "ab" from Minion Pro Regular.

Using the same approach on "bc" might not work due to the shape of the glyphs: