Appearance styles Appearance styles include plain, bold, italic, underline, outline, shadow, small caps, and strikethrough. With the exception of the Plain option, you can use as many of these appearances as you like on the same text. Applying the Plain setting removes other font styles that have been applied to revert text to its standard appearance. Depending on the typeface, using certain styles might not have the desired effect, and can even make text appear ugly when printed. For example, applying bold to a heavy weight typeface can make charac- ters look too thick. Similarly, applying italic to an already italicized font might exaggerate the slant of the characters. Capitalization styles Capitalization styles format text as uppercase, lowercase, or title (first letter of each word capitalized) styles. You can apply one of these capitalization styles to the same text: Normal, Upper, Lower, and Title. Baseline position The baseline of text is the imaginary horizontal line on which charac- ters sit. To position characters above (superscript) or below (sub- script) the normal baseline, you can shift the baseline position. Canvas does not change the type size of superscript and subscript text. Unless you reduce the type size of shifted text, the line size increases by the amount of the baseline shift. As a result, the line spacing might change, depending on the leading setting. If you don’t want the line spacing to change, you can reduce the type size of shifted text by the same amount (or more) of the baseline shift, or you can specify leading in points (see “Setting line and paragraph spac- ing,” page 28.551). If you use the Style submenu to change baseline position, you can choose either Superscript or Subscript to shift text the baseline by roughly 27 to 33 percent of point size of the line. For example, super- script text in a line of 12-point text appears 4.0 points above the nor- mal baseline. If you use the Character tab of the Type palette to change the baseline position, you can specify the exact distance (in points) of the text above or below the normal baseline.
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