Compress or expand the width of selected characters is known as?

• A. Vertical scaling
• B. Tracking
• C. Horizontal scaling
• D. Kerning

Answer: (C)

Adjusting the width of characters is about horizontal scaling. This controls how wide each glyph appears, stretching or squashing them along the horizontal axis, which changes the overall width of the text without altering its font size or vertical dimensions. It’s different from vertical scaling (which changes height), tracking (which shifts the spacing between characters across a group), and kerning (which tweaks space between specific character pairs).