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Character Palette

How to open: Click Windows then choose Character as seen on the left would open the Character Palette. You can click on the palettes Top to move it wherever you prefer.

Now we'll talk about the Character Palette in Details:

Font Type

Font Size

It Sets the Kerning between two characters

It sets the leading between characters

It sets the tracking for the selected characters

Horizontally Scale for the selected characters

Vertically Scale for the selected characters

It sets the Baseline shift

It sets the Color: With this option you can change the color of the text simply by clicking on this box and choosing a color. If after writing the text, you wanted to edit the color, double click on the text to select it, then by this option box you can change the color again.

Font styles: here you can select the font style from already preset styles by clicking on one of them.

Anti-Aliasing Method: this is a down drop menu than you can choose either None, Sharp, Crisp, Strong, or Smooth.

Language of selected Characters.