: Font with large spacing suggestion I'm using a software that has a very annoying auto-reduce-spacing feature, so that all the characters are close each other, that is highly unreadable. I can't

@Samaraweera207

You haven't mentioned what software it is. If it is doing "auto kerning" and you can't turn that off, then it doesn't sound like any change to the font will help, since any added bearings in the font will probably be cancelled out again by the software. So your first priority would be to try and get whatever software it is, to try and disable that feature or adjust your "tracking" or "letter spacing".

FontForge (free font editor) allows you to adjust the width of letter spacing in a font by selecting all desired characters, going to "Metrics" -> "Set Width" -> "Increment width by..." but it may not be as simple as that (it may affect placement of combining accents?). I guess it's a route for experimentation.

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@LarsenBagley460

I hope this is not too obvious an answer, but the first response I considered was fixed width fonts such as courier. If course, there is no kerning to consider. Certainly, Kerning is the keyword you are looking for, which is the space between the letters.

Other than this, is it possible for you to adjust kerning in the application or an external application. I am thinking you can import the text as another format (say an image).

You may do this in Photoshop in the following way.

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