GOOD TEXT FONT CONTROL COMMANDS FOR MAPS TEXTFONT First of all, you should avoid the cruder fonts (1-20 or so), and just use the Intellifont choices which I call zip-code fonts (94021, etc.). TEXTQUALITY PROPORTIONAL or TEXTQUALITY KERN You should use one of the above settings. The differrence between them is KERN overlaps characters like L and Y. Try it out. TEXTSPACING 1.1 or 1.2 Setting this to 1.1 or 1.2 gives a bit more space between the characters. Beyond 1.2 it looks weird. For titles, extra spaces between the words looks a bit better. There are ways of getting Arcplot to set this up, but I've always found the simplest method is to put an extrac space character between the words. Try it out. Also see the document on centering.