Question

small paragraph on track marking​

Answer 1

Answer:

Tracking is adjusting the overall spacing of a group of letters, words or even whole paragraphs and blocks of text. Along with kerning, tracking is the most used feature when adjusting body text. Although tracking is also widely used in headlines and other textual elements, especially if the text element is bigger in size.

Tracking, just like kerning is font dependent. One measure does not fit all text sizes and font types. Again, playing with the settings gives us the best results and good eye judgement is crucial, but unlike with kerning, it is much easier to spot the right or wrong tracking values.

Let’s go through some text elements and see how the tracking can be applied to them.