# Tutorial: Text In Flash: Make it Legible!

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**Created:** [December 10, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-text-in-flash-make-it-legible/9393 "2002-12-10T22:40:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![george1972](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19adc/32.png) [@george1972](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/george1972)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-text-in-flash-make-it-legible/9393/1 "2002-12-10T22:40:33Z")

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hi

i have a question regarding “text in flash: make it legible!” tutorial.

since we’re making the text dynamic, in order for it to be legible and crisp, the kerning feature in flash becomes disabled. thereby, the text becomes illegible, unless we use fonts like courier, verdana, etc.

does anyone know of a way to kern the words when using dyanmic text? or is there an alternative?

thanks.  
george

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-text-in-flash-make-it-legible/9393/2 "2002-12-11T22:04:08Z")

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what does kern do?

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-text-in-flash-make-it-legible/9393/3 "2002-12-12T20:15:59Z")

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hi

kerning controls the space between individual letters within a word. aka letter spacing

for example:

f i r e :fire has wide letter spacing.  
fire :fire has tight letter spacing

thanks.

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**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tutorial-text-in-flash-make-it-legible/9393/4 "2002-12-16T19:54:09Z")

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I use Pixel Fonts,but they must be sized in groups of 8.[list=1]  
[_]8  
[_]16  
[_]24  
[_]32  
[_]40  
[_]etc.  
[/list=1]  
Also the info tab x & y fields must be in whole numbers.[list=1]  
[_]x=32.0 not 32.3  
[_]y = 66.0 not 66.9  
[/list=1]  
I do the same for the w and H. I use this formula for all my Flash needs,it seems to work for me.

jt