Kerning increases or decreases the spacing between certain pairs of letters to improve their appearance. Most fonts include information that automatically reduces the amount of space between certain letter pairs, such as TA or Va. By default, Fireworks uses a font's kerning information when displaying text, but you may want to turn it off at smaller point sizes, or when the text has no anti-aliasing.
Range kerning increases or decreases the spacing between more than two characters.
Use the Text Editor to set kerning.
To disable automatic kerning:
Deselect Auto-Kern.
To set kerning:
| 1 | Select characters in the Text Editor: |
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To kern between two characters, click between them. |
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For range kerning, highlight the characters you want to change. |
| 2 | Enter a kerning value.
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| Zero represents normal kerning. Positive values move letters farther apart. Negative values move letters closer together. | |
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