Photoshop text: Weird spacing between characters - How to fix?

[webstudiocarlo]

Hi,

I bought Design & Web premium (NL), and I have a question about the spacing between characters in Photoshop, does someone now how to fix it? To show it's not a font-problem i used Verdana, Arial and now Tahoma, all with the same problems........I checked, all the text spacing is 0.

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks in advance!

By the way: sorry for my bad English..... : )

[Lynx_Paul · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try changing kerning from Metric to Optical.

Another option is to switch off Fractional Widths.

Can you make the PSD available for download?

Hope this helps 🙂

[webstudiocarlo]

Thanks, that did the trick!

[rtijn]

This still applies in oct 2017

Sidenote: turning ON 'fractional widths' resolved the problem. Thanks a lot, this has been bothering me for a long time and I never even knew of the existence of this option. Still don't know what it's for but it works

[davec2572528]

Same here. Its sooooo bad in Photoshop. Idk how to fix this and its very frustrating. Anyone know why or how to fix?

[Noel Carboni]

It could be helpful to describe exactly how you created the text you're showing here.  Is it upscaled from a smart object? 

I ask because it's also fuzzier than it ought to be, implying it's been rasterized at some point.

Edit:  Never mind, I see I'm too slow.

-Noel

[Pedro5C19]

Assign this option in paragraph menu. It worked for me.