Kerning

Formatting Text


	Kerning

Design Center - Text Tools

Overview
To improve the overall appearance of text SignMaster Cut allows you to set the physical distance between characters of a given font such as an A and V across all instances of that particular font (see examples below). Some fonts contain information that the font designer considers the correct spacing between these given characters which are referred to as Kerning Pairs.

SignMaster Cut refers to this information as the Embedded Kerning. Where this information is unavailable or undesirable SignMaster Cut uses its own approach to Kerning Pairs which is referred to as Factory Default. The remaining settings are more generic in nature and will produce wide and varied results on different fonts.

How to Set Kerning

To	Do the following

Set Kerning

	•	When text is selected click the Text menu → Kerning and Tracking and select the required kerning and the text's kerning will change accordingly.
		Kerning should not be confused with Tracking. Tracking is the application of the same spacing between all characters of given text and not related to specific pairs of characters that require special treatment such as A and V when typed together.

Where even finer control is required select the text and then Node edit mode and slide the character's nodes closer or further apart.