What can you do to fix the text in your catalogs
Many new designers in catalog printing struggle with this situation, but most find no answers and are forced to cut their content short, or sometimes add padding. With this article though, we will help you avoid this situation. Below are a few professional techniques that most experts use to tweak their text. Learning these tricks will help you manipulate your text in so many precise ways. You should be able to fit them quite comfortably in any space where you want them to be.
• Just use a different font – BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE, if you are having trouble with fitting your text in certain design elements, you might want to see if changing the font style solves your problems. Not all fonts are the same and even with the same font size value, some will look bigger or wider than others will. By testing out first if you can get away with other font style options, you should minimize your effort in trying to adjust things in a little bit more technical level. There are many different but slightly similar fonts out there. Who knows? You might find another great style that will help you fit your text content.
• Decimal values in font size – Now, if changing the font style did not work, then let us explore changing the font size in a more precise manner. In almost all updated design applications today, it is possible to use decimal values on your font size. Therefore, instead of just 12pt or 14pt, you can actually insert values such as 12.5. This precise decimal value can really be useful if you want your text to fit in precisely where you want them to fit in. So try it out and see if you can set your text exactly the way you want to with this font size precision.
• Precise values in line spacing – The next step after tweaking your font size is tweaking your line spacing. If your text is more than one line long, more often than not, you should have some line spacing issues in your catalog printing draft. By default, it should be at a single line spacing setting. However, some catalog designs will require you to set your line spacing closer or further apart than that. In this situation, you only need to use precise values in your line spacing controls.
If you go through your paragraph formatting controls, you should see that you could adjust text content in single-spaced, 1.5 spaces, or double spaces. Some applications go even further than that and let you set number values on the spaces, even as far as letting you put in exact decimal numbers. Therefore, if you need to adjust your paragraphs of text, you should try out using precise values in line spacing as well.
• Fine-tune the character spacing and kerning – Finally, if you are still having trouble with your text content, you may want to consider fine-tuning the character spacing and kerning values.
Character spacing, which is sometimes referred to as character tracking is the set space measurement between each character in text. This has a standard value set by the font style and the font size. Besides that, you also have something called Kerning settings, which are the set space measurements between certain specific characters. For example, the different characters To and Wa when put together have a certain character spacing set into them to make them look normal.
You can customize these settings if you want so that you can tweak your text content even further for catalog printing. Sometimes, you just need to make the characters just a little bit closer, or just a little bit further apart to get that perfect look for your catalog designs. So do not forget to try this tweak out.
Great! I hope that now, I will not hear the words I cannot fix my text in catalogs! With these text formatting tips, you should have all you need to precisely manipulate your text to fit your design needs.
