Drag your cursor over the alternate glyph you would like to use, and release the mouse. The glyph should now be inserted in the text. One of the easiest ways to disqualify yourself as a professional designer is by using hyphens and dashes incorrectly.
The rules are somewhat tedious but fairly easy to learn and remember. It has three functions. It is used when a word is split at the end of a line of text.
If in doubt, look up the word in a dictionary and use a hyphen if the word is not present. An en dash is the second longest in length and is used to show a span of time or a numerical range; for example, 5—9, July—September, — An em dash is the longest in length of the three and is used to show a break in thought. When working with large amounts of text in Illustrator, you do not have to keep applying the same font styles manually to every heading and block of text.
You can simply save your settings using the Character Styles panel or the Paragraph Styles panel. To set a style, simply type your heading or paragraph using the font styles you want to save.
A Styles panel box will appear, and in the upper-right corner will be a small arrow, which is the Styles menu. When you would like to add your new Character or Paragraph Style to text, select the text. Then click on the style that you created in the Style panel box. The style you saved will now be added to the text. To edit a style, click on the style in the panel box, then click to the Character and Paragraph Style options in the drop-down menu, or simply double-click on the style you want to change.
Now on the left side of the dialog box that pops open, click on a formatting category. Keep in mind that if text is selected, the changes will be made to it only. Click on the Selection tool and then click anywhere on the work desk to make sure that text is not selected before attempting to change the style of all text.
To delete a style, select it in the Character or Paragraph Styles panel. The formatting of text associated with this style will not change, but a style will no longer be applied to this text.
Most Illustrator users know that type can be placed on a path to create shaped text or text that wraps around an object. The technique for applying text to a path is different depending on the path, though.
Type can be placed on either an open path, which is a line with a beginning and end, or a closed path, such as a circle or square. To place type on an open path i. Make sure to select the Type tool, and then move your cursor over the path until the cursor changes to a Type on a Path icon, which has a line through it.
Then just click on the path, and you will have created a Path Type object. The Stroke objects will be gone, and a blinking cursor will appear in which you can type your message. To make any changes to your open path type, choose the Selection tool and click on the path. In and out ports small white boxes will appear at either end of the path and a line in the center and on the far left and right.
Basically, Illustrator is now treating the path as it would area type. Drag one of the lines to make the text path shorter or longer; make sure that your cursor is an arrow with a line-and-arrow symbol next to it.
You can change the actual type just as you would any other area type, including by changing the font size. If this happens, a red plus sign will appear. If you click on the plus sign, the cursor will change to a linked container cursor it looks like a text box. Then, click on another area in your project to create another open path line of the same size and shape as your first. New text will continue to flow onto this new line.
Make changes to the actual path that the text sits on by choosing the Direct Selection tool and then clicking on the path. You can now lengthen or shorten the path or change the shape, just as you would with any other path. You can also move the type to sit underneath the path by dragging the center line to the opposite side of the path. Other changes can be made in this dialog box as well: change the effect, choose other path alignment options or adjust the spacing.
The confusing part of placing type on a closed path is that the start and end points are in the same place. With an open path, your starting point is wherever you click with the Type tool to create a Path Type object, and the end point is the end of the path. On a closed path, both the start and end points are wherever you click, because the object creates a continuous line. Use Baseline Shift to move selected characters up or down relative to the baseline of the surrounding text. Kerning is the process of adding or subtracting space between specific pairs of characters.
Tracking is the process of loosening or tightening the spacing between the characters in selected text or an entire block of text.
Values for kerning and tracking affect Japanese text but normally these options are used to adjust the aki between Roman characters. You can automatically kern type using metrics kerning or optical kerning. Metrics kerning also called Auto kerning uses kern pairs, which are included with most fonts. Kern pairs contain information about the spacing of specific pairs of letters.
Some of these are: LA, P. Metrics kerning is set as the default so that specific pairs are automatically kerned when you import or type text.
Some fonts include robust kern-pair specifications. Optical kerning adjusts the spacing between adjacent characters based on their shapes. Original text B. Text with optical kerning C. Text with manual kerning between W and a D. Text with tracking E. Cumulative kerning and tracking. You can also use manual kerning, which is ideal for adjusting the space between two letters. Tracking and manual kerning are cumulative, so you can first adjust individual pairs of letters, and then tighten or loosen a block of text without affecting the relative kerning of the letter pairs.
When you click to place the insertion point between two letters, kerning values appear in the Character panel. Metrics and optical kerning values or defined kern pairs appear in parentheses.
Place the cursor between the two letters, and press at the same time, Command Shift ] on a Mac to go right, Command Shift [ to go left. For a PC, hold the Control key, not the Command key. The keyboard shortcut is Shift T. The icon will change, of course, and it may ask you to select a character to get started. I hover over my type right here, and you can tell the icon has changed to show the touch-type tool small icon there.
Select which letter you want to kern, and this tool is meant for improving the kerning of individual letters or also scaling or rotating a letter. Perhaps the most useful part of this tool if I select this once again just hit that touch-type tool button and choose a letter is for doing the kerning of the letters two letters.
If you add the Shift key to the arrows, the kerning jumps up to 10 steps.
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