How to Reduce Extra Space in Text Bounding Box in Photoshop?

[arkadygold]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently facing an issue with Adobe Photoshop where the text bounding box has a lot of extra space around the actual text. This is making it challenging for me to align my text precisely within my designs, as the transform controls include a lot of unnecessary empty space.

Does anyone know how to adjust the bounding box in Photoshop to make it fit closer to the text without extra space?

[Lumigraphics]

Create an action to convert from paragraph to point text and back to paragraph. This will shrink the bounding box.

[arkadygold]

Hi there,

Thank you for getting back to me. When I convert the paragraph to point text, the little spaces between the letters and the selection box don't seem to disappear. It just makes it a non-dependent paragraph for the selection box. Could you be referring to a different method that I may not be familiar with?

[Lumigraphics]

I'm not sure what you are asking. Convert and then convert back. Spacing is always preserved, its part of the text block.

[arkadygold]

This is what I'm talking about: when you start scaling the text box to fit any grid, it adds spaces between the box and the letters.

[Lumigraphics]

That's how type works. Letters have individual bounding boxes and there is letterspacing. A bounding box will not be exactly to the edge of your glyphs.

[arkadygold]

So unless it is a shape, are there no ways to have it pixel-presided?

[Lumigraphics]

Its... complicated. Fonts have various anti-aliasing methods that can add shaded pixels and fonts (which use two different types of mathematical curves) will render slightly different at different sizes- they can't fit to a square pixel grid without jaggies. Adobe has two different line composition methods which vary spacing, and of course you can adjust most of this manually if you want.

Added to all of that are paragraph settings such as line and character spacing, leading, baseline shifts, tracking, and kerning. Those all help define how glyphs arélaid out and how much room they occupy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_rasterization

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/a-closer-look-at-font-rendering/

https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4468/whats-the-rectangle-surrounding-a-font-glyph-including-its-s...

https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/glyphs/glyphs-3.html