: Justifying single letters in Illustrator I don't know if the title is right, so I'll explain it with an example. I am working on a simple project in Adobe Illustrator and I would like to

@Margaret771

Here's a script that does something similar I think, write each line of text in separate point text frames, select them all and run the script. The script will ask you for the width of the final composition and the spacing between lines.


aiscripts.com/illustrator-text-block/

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@Goswami567

When working with a small amount of text, it's not a big deal to
turn the text into outlines via the Type > Create Outlines menu.
Then, take the words on the top line and you could ungroup that.
Put the first letter where you want, horizontally, the last letter
where you want to the right of that.
Select all letters, using the Align window, making sure
Align to Selection is checked, and then click the Horizontal
Distribute Center button. This will space the characters out evenly.
Select them all and group them again (select them, then use ⌘ + G / CTRL + G). With the second line, the letters U and P, making sure
they're ungrouped (right click menu), select the U and the top line
letter group and click the Horizontal Align Left button.
Select the P and the top line letter group and click the Horizontal
Align Right button.
With a word such as "Like" you'd ungroup those letters, then Align
the L to the left. The E to the right. And then select all the
letters and click the Horizontal Distribute Center button, which
will spread out the "i" and the "k" evenly between the "L" and the
"E."


Once you get the hang out it, you can do that for every line of words pretty quickly. NOTE: You need to have two objects (an object can be a group of objects) selected in order to use those align buttons.

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@Miguel516

What you want is called tracking. It's the overall spacing between the letters in a line.

I would center justify the text and adjust the tracking per line to space the letters out evenly. The fastest way is to highlight a line and use opt/alt with L/R arrows to track it out how you want it.

If some letters aren't looking evenly spaced to your liking you can fine-tune it by adjust the space between individual letters. That's called Kerning. You can do this quickly with the same keys above, but instead of selecting the whole line just place the text input cursor between the letters you want to kern.

Tracking and Kerning are also in the Character palette. You can enter smaller values of each than the quick keys increment.

Edit:
When I first tried @Alin 's answer it didn't work for me, but after getting down-voted I revisited it and it worked. My mistake was that I didn't make a text box and was working on a text line with hard breaks.

His method works well and is probably the easiest way to achieve what you asked for.

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@Welton168

Method 1

The answer is in your question title. Simply create a text box, set the alignment to justify and on each row of text with a single word in it, place a space between every letter except the last one.

This will align it just the way you want it.

DEMO:

I didn't even have to add spaces between the letters of the single words


Playing around with font weight and stiles can get you here:





Method 2

This is for when you need 100% accuracy and you are willing to work just a bit more for the result:


Write your text
Create Outlines
Ungroup and Group each line of text separately
Give the same width to each line of text
Align Horizontally and add spaces between lines


DEMO:

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