Indesign justification

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    • #86178
      Wouter A
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      Indesign has a Justification tool/palet (see link: https://www.magazinedesigning.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/text-paragraph-justification-indesign-2.png), but what does the 100% mean, where is it based on? Is it 1em (the full width of the letter T or what else?

    • #86181
      Ari Singer
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      I believe ‘100%’ stands for the default kerning installed in the font.

      P.S. Who provides the spell-checking for the site? Is it Google? Because I’m not impressed!

      They flagged the word ‘kerning’. Really?! ‘Guesstimate’ is a word, and ‘kerning’ not?! They better add this to their dictionary.

      Google, if you need any references, I’ll be glad to help… For starters, you can check this out: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/kerning

    • #86182

      From what I can remember,
      1 EM = one letter width (if your using 24 pt then the em would be 24 pt.
      1 EN = one number width, same thing applies
      1 1/3= one third of an em
      1 thin sp= a punctuation mark

      I don’t know if this helps you or not.

    • #86183
      Wouter A
      Member

      Thanks! After google-ing, i also think it’s an default kerning installed in the font. So we must trust the font-maker ;)
      And Michele, thats correct, only it isnt what i was looking for… Cause i want to know if 100% = 1/m or is it 2/m, 3/m and ect.
      But than again; i also believe what Ari said. It is a default installed by the font-maker and if i want to know what that is, i should open the font in fontlab or something like that to find out what the font settings are, but i won’t go so far ;).

      Now i measured the space within indesign with a line ;)

    • #86195

      My fault, I didn’t check your link first.

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