Typography Settings

In pagestrip, a multitude of settings for typographic features are available. The most important ones are available via the text inspector tab, which is shown when a text box is selected or text is being edited.

While most settings are self-explanatory, here’s a detailed list of what the individual features do:

• Preview: A visual representation of the currently selected font face and size. Other settings, such as letter spacing or subscript/superscript, are not represented in the preview.
• Font family: When choosing a font family, the dropdown menu will display each font name in the font itself, enabling you to get a quick overview of how the font will look like.
• Bold – Italics – Underline: These buttons allow you to quickly select the bold, italic and underlined style of a font. For more granular control over the font style, use the *font style* menu.
• Font style: Since a given font might have a plethora of different styles, you can select the style explicitly. Again, the dropdown menu shows a visual preview of how the style will look.
• Font size: Controls the size of the font, e.g. the height of individual characters.
• Subscript/Superscript: Setting the text to subscript will render like the "2" in CO₂, while superscript looks like the "2" in cm². You can still edit the font size of super- or subscripted type individually.
• Letter case: This changes the glyphs used to render the text to either lowercase, uppercase or letter case. For the example phrase "The car drives", lower case would be "the car drives", uppercase is "THE CAR DRIVES" and letter-case is "The Car Drives". Note that this is just a visual setting and doesn't change the actual text content.
• Letter spacing: Enables you to change the horizontal whitespace between individual letters, making the type wider or narrower.
• Text color: Change the color of the selected text.
• Vertical alignment: The three settings *Top* (the default), *Middle* and *Bottom* define how text grows into its surrounding text box. Per default, text will flow into the box from the top. Middle-aligned text will grow from the center of the box, while bottom-aligned text grows from the bottom.
• Text alignment: Text can be aligned to the left, the center, or the right, or be left-justified.
• Line height: Line height (or leading) defines the distance between two consecutive baselines of text. If the line height is larger than the font size, there will be a visible whitespace between lines of text. If it is smaller than the font size, consecutive lines will overlap vertically.
• After/before paragraph spacing: This defines the additional vertical spacing after and before paragraphs. Often, this is set to a multiple (or even fraction) of the line-height. Alternatively, some designers use empty lines to separate paragraphs and keep this at zero.
• Text indent: The indentation (e.g. the leading whitespace) of the first line of text in the paragraph.
• Left/right paragraph margin: This changes the whitespace to the left and right of the whole paragraph (other than *text indent*, which only affects the first line of a paragraph).

Apart from these settings, OpenType features are also available through the inspector, if a font supports them.

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