All language subtitles for 2. Working With Text Type Tools, Adobe Typekit, and Creating Outlines

All right if we're going to make a type Achrafieh poster it's about time to learn how to bring in our

text.

So I don't want you to do is copy that quote you have wherever you have it or get ready to type it out

with the letter T to get your type tool and I already have my quote copied to my clipboard so I'm going

to click once it command V to paste that in there and you'll see it drops it in in a straight line.

Now this was a long text say a whole paragraph because it just clicked once it would just put it in

one long line.

Now with my type tool selected I could also click and drag which will create a text box that will contain

my text.

Now if I hit command V to paste you'll see it contains it within that box.

So now that we know how to bring in the text Let's learn how to modify it.

So what I want you to do is go ahead and command click.

And with that text selected my options borrow changed to reflect the options that my Type 2 has.

Even if let's say I click on the move to or the selection tool I click away and now truly it is my selection

to all my options by changes but by clicking on that line of text my options change with the text tool

has.

So I can click on the dropdown menu at the top and I can see all kinds of fonts for my entire font library

.

These are all the fonts that are on my system currently that I have available and if you find one you

like you can see the preview here on the side you just click on it and it'll change your font to be

whatever that is.

Now once you get a font you like you can come in here to the character window click on that and I can

further refine options like the size of the font.

I can bring that up a little bit.

The Letting and what the Letting is it's the space between the lines.

This isn't going to be a good sample on this one because it's not in two lines but this one however

I click once on that come back over my character window and I change that letting If I bring it down

.

They get smaller.

The reason why they call it letting us back in the day when these cassette type by hand they would put

physical pieces of lead between the types of between the rows of text.

So that's what that is is not leading It's letting.

And then we have our kerning the space between two characters and how that behaves.

And then we also have our tracking which is when you track out every character.

So for example as I bring this up let's just jump to a bigger number you can see that it's spaces out

those letters so we can come in here and we can refine things.

And if you decide that you don't want to have to try and figure out the distances you're wanting to

do here you can use the touch type tool.

So I'm going to zoom in a little bit.

I'm going to click once use that shortcut Space Command and then click to bring it in a little bit closer

and a click once in my text again come back up here and choose the touch type tool.

And now I can click once on any letter I want to mess with and then I can drag it to modify the space

or I can even scale it up.

I can hover on this tab on the top and rotate it.

So a lot of things I can do.

The benefit of working this way is it keeps my text editable.

So now if I wanted to I could just command click off to the side get my text tool selected here with

the letter T and highlight that S and I could change it to anything I wanted whether it was a lowercase

letter or back to that capital.

Or maybe a different letter altogether.

It's nice to keep that editable.

So that's one way to work and let's say you're playing with this and you just don't see the right font

you want to use.

So what we can do is with the Adobe Creative Suite subscription you have access to the Adobe fonts from

type kit.

So with my fonts elected here I can jump over to the ad from Advani from type kit or actually you don't

even have to be in there let's say you're just on your in your project you've been cooperative type

ad fonts from type kit.

That's another way to get there.

But what it's going to do is it's going to open up the type kit library.

And once you're in there you can refine your selections further.

So let's go ahead and pick a sans serif font and maybe I will choose.

Now here's one thing too I want to keep the ones that I can sink.

If it's just the web based version that's if you want to embed it on a Web site but not all web fonts

are available for your desktop.

So since I'm showing you on my desktop how to design with type Ogger you we're going to leave the sync

option selected.

So it just shows us the fonds I can actually sync up with.

Let's find some headings fonts.

These are fonts it might be a little more stylistic and not as good for a paragraph.

And this case will work out great for our quote.

I want the weight to be a little bit heavier and maybe choose a more condensed font.

So now with these font options selected I can kind of scroll through and see if any of these stick out

that I want to use on the project.

So how about this one.

Abolition soft so I'll go ahead and use this font or click on that and it gives me the option to select

a different font families so the characters see regular and oh Bleek families we can choose from all

of those both selected Bleek is another word for italic.

So click on sync selected fonts and what it's going to do is immediately sync this to my creative library

let's X out of that now and jump back over into Illustrator and you'll see I get my notification appear

to fonts were added and I can immediately apply that so I don't have to quit illustrator and open it

back up I can click once up on here to apply to this font search for it abolition abolition soft click

once on that.

And now that font has been applied saying See it's a lot quicker than it used to be.

If you have any experience in the past with some of the older versions of Illustrator which you probably

don't or you wouldn't be in this class but if you did you used to have to close out of your app and

then reopen it to load but not anymore.

So that's a great way to add new fonts to your system.

So now we've done that.

Now we can fine tune our fonts a little bit further so we can again we can click on here and click on

the dropdown of this character menu to to make changes here.

When click on the paragraph setting if we don't want it to hyphenate or if we want to modify you know

the layout of your font whether it's left justified center right.

OK so we can play those options as well.

The other thing that I like to do is I use shortcuts a lot.

So instead of even coming up to those menus what I can do is hit command shift and the period key or

the greater then and you can see that I can make my font much bigger or smaller without even having

to take my hands over to the mouse to find in the menu.

So that's command shift comma to make it smaller command shift period to make it bigger.

Now as I make it bigger and those that letting get stacked on top of it selves on that hit command option

and the down arrow key to make my letting bigger or command option and the up arrow key to bring it

back in.

So this is the way I work a lot of times I'm trying to quickly blitz through my font and get it kind

of close to the size I want and once I get this set where I want it in this text box now so the problem

is as I make this bigger it's going to start jumping to the lines it needs.

But let's say I got this exactly high I wanted it in two lines.

I could just click once on this and if I start to click and drag what's going to happen is it's just

going to resize my box but I want to stay the same size just bigger.

I'm sorry the same the same layout here in two lines but just bigger.

So what I'm going to do instead is the letter E which if I have a right over here that's my free transform

tool.

So now what I can do is click and drag and it's going to make the whole thing bigger the box and the

fonts again you'll see it skews it to hold on the shift key to make sure it doesn't skew at all let

go the mouse first and then I'll let go the shift key and you can see my font is much bigger.

So all right we're getting there we're almost there you're learning how to use the different tools here

regarding type.

What I want you to do now if you're up for it.

We're going to go up here to type create outlines.

So shift commando and before we do this what I want to do is probably make a copy so I've got my selection

tool selected.

I could am I type to a select and hit the command key either way make sure that that arrow you're showing

that black arrow and then hit the old key and you get the double arrow.

I don't see that at the black eye on the white or next to it.

Click and drag to the side.

What that's going to do is make a copy.

So we still have as editable text if we want to come back to this and make changes.

But clicking on this or this copy we've got here on the main on the main Our board come to type and

click on Create outlines or you could just hit shift command.

Oh.

Now what it does is it convert your type to shapes.

It's no longer a font.

And if we zoom in here you see all these little blue dots what are those things.

Well those are anchor points or points and paths.

So if I hit the letter and I get my direct selection tool I can select just a few of these paths and

you notice the ones I selected have the solid blue the ones that aren't selected have white in the middle

there.

And I can click and drag.

So no this gets really fun.

Now I can really modify things and start making it exactly what I wanted to do.

So maybe on my L or maybe the R over here I can click and drag and drag this down a little bit you know

and start making this my own and doing some really really cool things to it maybe I want to highlight

this t drag it up and maybe put a sale on there like a pirate ship or something.

But you can see how all of a sudden it goes from being a font that you really can't do too much with

being custom shapes that you can do anything you can imagine with we can even use the direct selection

tool to select either any one of these individually and add color to it and separate out the colors

.

So it becomes a lot of fun when you can really go crazy with those outlines.

All right.

So what we're going to do now I'm going to go ahead and stop here at command S to save this isn't what

I want to do from my for the look at things yet but in the next lesson we're going to dive into shapes

colors graphics and our boards to create some of the images I showed you with that introduction.

All right.

Here we go