Remove space inside framed text

[Bumblebee31]

Hej there.

Please see attached screenshot.

I try to remove the whitespace before the "D" of "DESIGN".

When I have multiple framed text boxes with different sizes, they don't align correctly. The "PRETTY THINGS" box has the same x position as the "DESIGN" box, but slides optically more to the left, because of this space at the beginning.

Where does this space come from and how can I avoid it?

Nope, artistic text is not an option, even though the spacing in the begging does not appear there.

 

Thanks, Mario

[Old Bruce]

I am fairly certain this is part of the font's metrics/design, so as far as I know there is nothing you can do to 'fix' it other than using Art Text. Some additional information would be useful, which font is used and which application is this done in.

[Bumblebee31]

Hi. Thanks for the reply.

The font is Arial and the application is Affinity Designer.

I think, if it can work with Art Text, it should work with Frame Text, too.

Otherwise Frame Text is pretty useless if you can't align it correctly.

[Wosven]

In this case, I would only use one text frame and works to align all the paragraphs or lines from there.

Or you can add a guide to align the different text frames.

[Bumblebee31]

Thanks for the reply.

It doesn't matter if this is one text frame or two. The behavior is the same (see attachment).

And adding guides and fix manually is just a workaround. I can handle that, no problem, but I'd still be interested in a solution or an explanation.

[Fixx]

I do not think any application can align this "right". Font metrics and graphics apps are designed to produce pleasing text columns where are generally a lot of text and align "averages". Flush alignment have been done manually. Separate art text boxes can help some here though.

[Wosven]

58 minutes ago, Bumblebee31 said:

It doesn't matter if this is one text frame or two. The behavior is the same (see attachment).

You need to adust text frames or indent paragraphs depending of the option chosen.

Personnaly, I'd rather have only one text frame in which I can navigate using the arrow keys than multiple text frames I need to click on when needing to modify or copy the whole text.

[R C-R]

21 hours ago, Bumblebee31 said:

I can handle that, no problem, but I'd still be interested in a solution or an explanation.

The explanation, as already been mentioned, is font metrics, specifically that a certain amount of empty space is built into each glyph. You can see this easily in your example if you select (highlight) just the large D or smaller P.