Use tabs, spaces, backspaces, kerning, or character spacing to add or remove space. You can adjust only the first line or you could adjust all the lines around the initial cap, following the lines of the letters shape. The goal is to make the first word look more like one word rather than a single big letter followed by other words.
Fine-tuning Initial Caps
By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com
Because the automatic dropped cap scripts create square holes to drop in the enlarged cap non-square letters such as A, O, V, or D end up with empty space (or not enough space) between them and the second letter of the word.
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- Adjust Initial Caps for Best Appearance and Readability
- Adjust Gaps in Dropped Caps
- Eliminate Trapped White Space in Drop Caps
- Put Initial Caps on the Baseline
Initial Caps, Drop Caps
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