Publisher, align text with different sizes

[Thomasdelange]

Today I noticed that when the size of the text increases, it also increases the distance from the left boundary of the text frame. This is best explained in the picture below.

The thing is, I don't know if this is the 'official' way for text alignment but it kinda annoys me.

What can I do to make the P align with the F below?

Edited December 7, 2020 by Thomasdelange

[Old Bruce]

That has to do with the way the font is designed. If you want the letters to line up with the edge of the frame you have to use the Art Text tool and restrict it to one line per frame.

[walt.farrell]

A couple of other possibilities:

• The Character panel has an Optical Alignment section at the bottom. You could adjust the Left optical alignment for P and apply that to the line in the P in the upper frame to get it to align like you want.
• You could slide the upper text frame slightly to the left.

Both may be more trouble than you'd want.

But I think Old Bruce is right about it being a characteristic of the font design. Basically, you can think of each letter as being centered in a box, then adjusted for kerning with a following letter if necessary. As the font size increases, the size of the box increases, and so the letter is relatively in the same position as in the smaller font size, but that relative position is physically larger.

[thomaso]

This font specific distance is less obvious if you use the Artistic Text Tool instead.
Then you still have the option to adjust the optical alignment.
Here it's set to 'None', where the slightly offset of "F" and "I" is caused by their straight vertical lines compared to the curved "C":