Compressing character spacing with tsume


    When you apply tsume to a character, the white space (aki) before and after the character will be packed in the ratio, and the vertical and horizontal scale of the character will not change.

    Character without tsume (left) compared to character with tsume (right)
    Character without tsume (left) compared to character with tsume (right)

    You can also increase the aki manually before and after characters. (See Working with composition.)

To compress the aki between characters:

  1. Select the characters you want to adjust.
  2. In the Character palette, specify a percentage for Tsume  tsume icon . The higher the percentage, the narrower the aki between characters.