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Specifying kerning and tracking
Kerning controls the spacing between
two characters. You can control kerning
manually; or you can turn on the kern-
ing built into a font by the font designer.
See Spacing characters with auto-kern-
ing for more on using a font’s built-in
kerning.
Tracking inserts uniform spac-
ing between more than two characters
in selected type. Use tracking to adjust
the spacing of a word or of an entire
block of type.
The Character palette displays either
a Kerning option or a Tracking option,
depending on the type selected. The
Kerning option appears if an insertion
point is between two characters. The
Tracking option appears if several char-
acters, type paths, or type containers
are selected.