![]() ![]() ![]() Some terrible ones, like Brush Script to some nicer ones like Lust Script. Okay, you can see there is all the script fonts that I have installed on my machine. Okay, so that's uber cool, it's really handy just to go through and kind of cut down the fonts. You can kinda get a sample of the look of a serif font. See this little filter? It drops it down to everything that's on my computer that's a serif font. So a serif font is like this one at the top here, it's got the little serifs, okay, the little extra hanging pieces that are off the edges here. And one thing that can be quite useful, especially if you've got a lot of fonts on your machine like me, like man, I just wanna find a say a serif font or a sans serif. I've got quite a few on my one but I go through, find one that you like. What I'm gonna do for this, I'm gonna drop down my Character panel and you'll see in here and these are all the ones that are built into my computer, okay. Okay, but I'll let you explore those ones. ![]() Click on this, there's a bunch of other stuff in there. Same with paragraph, we've got left, right justification. Again, I'm not gonna cover it all cuz it's pretty easy to experiment with. I can make it all capitals, there's subscript, baseline shift, all sorts of other stuff in here. What could be in here? More options, so you get a bit more detailed stuff. The one thing I will show you is see these little dots? So there's the character kind of panel right here and there's these little dots. I'm not gonna cover all of this because it's pretty basic word processing. There's the spacing between the characters, so spacing between words, spacing between characters, paragraph, left and right align. Okay, but it's just the spacing between the lines. We're not gonna cover everything like font sizing, okay? Easy, there's the line spacing, okay? So they call it leading in here. So first up with my black arrow with this text box selected, I'm not gonna cover over here on Properties tab. Cool, so let's look at the fonts that are built into your computer versus the ones we can download from something called Typekit. Myriad Pro is probably going to be what it's gonna be, or Minion. Okay, Myriad is like the default font for Illustrator. Okay, this is defaulting to the last font that I used. And we're gonna look at two kinds of text, so two kinds of text boxes and two kinds of text. So we'll work on this body copy down the bottom here, we're gonna kind of put it somewhere over here. You can leave it in there for the design, but obviously it gets switched out for the end. When really you're after more a style feedback, not text amends. And we don't want to use actual text because often the client can come back with like grammar and text amends. And also, I'm getting kind of like visual concepts signed off by the client. For me as a designer, often I don't have the text yet. It's just there are actual Latin words that are all mixed up into a random order so that you as a designer can design the look and feel of, say this postcard without having to use actual text. Now, what is all the stuff that's in here? It's just something called Lorem Ipsum. You can see here if I start typing, okay, you'll see it breaks on to the next line. ![]() You can draw a point type box and type on further or drag out a box, get a specific width that breaks. So depending on what kind of text box you need. Again, back to the black arrow means it's all selected, make it white. So that the line comes along and breaks and comes along to the other side. Grab the Type tool and this is better for body copy, it's called an area type box. Click on the background so we've got nothing selected. Okay, the other kind of text box is, let's grab our black arrow. What I'll do is with it selected, I'm gonna select it white, so you get the idea. Okay, so it's really good for, say, you're doing some text for this logo or a heading, okay, just a nice simple text box, just click once. All it means is that, When I type, it just keeps on going forever. If you just click once, it's called a point type box. And there is two kinds of text boxes you can create. So over here in your toolbar, grab the capital T, the Type tool. So, type and text and fonts, all of that stuff. All I've done is put an image in the background that I got from Unsplash. And in your Exercise Files, there's one called postcard.ai. All right, to get started go to File, go to Open. In this video we are going to look at how to create type boxes, how to work with fonts and how to download good looking fonts from something called Typekit. 4.1 How to Use Type and Fonts in Illustrator ![]()
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