Adjusting leading, kerning, and tracking are key to typesetting, since they affect how spacing makes your text look proportional and readable. Here’s a comprehensive breakdown of each term and how you can adjust it all in Photoshop and Illustrator.

2024年8月19日 · Tracking is the distance between all symbols in the font. Tracking allows designers to adjust this spacing evenly, making the intervals between letters larger or smaller. Meanwhile, the text maintains a balanced look thanks to kerning, which makes these two concepts so firmly bound.

Tracking is the typographer’s term for letter-spacing. Sometimes confused with kerning (which is used to adjust spacing between individual letters), tracking adjusts the letter-spacing uniformly over a range of characters. Tracking affects the visual density of a word, phrase or paragraph.

Tracking is the uniform addition or reduction of space between a range of characters. When setting a display typeface at smaller sizes, open the tracking to improve readability. Set in the Neue Helvetica® Ultra Light typeface.

2023年12月27日 · One of the key aspects of typography is ‘tracking’ (also known as letter spacing), a term often used interchangeably with kerning and leading, yet distinctly different. Understanding tracking and how to use it effectively can elevate the quality of …

Tracking is a term used to identify the way you decrease or increase the horizontal spacing between a range of letters or characters. Usually, this technique is a method designers leverage to adjust and fine-tune the letter spacing of a logo, or …

In terms of typography and graphic design, tracking is one of the basic techniques that designers have to master. Font selection can be considered an important thing as well, but the use of appropriate tracking typography can make your content easier …

2023年10月10日 · Tracking can be used to add or reduce space between letters within a word, or between words, and can be useful for improving the readability and visual appeal of text, especially in larger fonts or for display typography.

2024年1月19日 · By exploring tracking variations, evaluating font distinctions, synergizing with kerning and leading, seeking feedback and tailoring tracking to individual fonts, you can elevate your designs and master the art of typography.

2019年4月14日 · Handwriting fonts and cursive typefaces are set with specific kerning, and if you adjust the tracking, you will get gaps in an otherwise unbroken line. Or going the other direction to compress the lines, you might simply make the script unreadable.