Hey, guys, it's Martin from Yes I'm a designer.
I'm going to show you a new feature in Adobe Illustrator CC 2019.
So we have a lovely little composition here
in Illustrator with the title and the copy
but I'm still not hundred percent sure whether this font is what I need.
So I am going to open up my character panel
and I just drag it out here so we can see it better.
In CC 2019 when you click
on the font option
you will see a lot of new things here
we finally have the
chance to change the preview text.
So it automatically sets it to the selected text which is amazing
so I have the word mindfulness here
and I can immediately see that
in the drop down
it's a very basic thing but it was missing from the previous versions.
So finally now we get to choose that option which is great
but we can also change it to anything else from here as you can see we have the
like common quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog text
which is also nice
that we have it, we have also the full alphabet
and we have also numbers
and special characters we can very quickly check
but to be honest I prefer
the selected text option the most because that's always the most relevant one anyway.
The other improvement that we will find here is that we have
a couple of additional filtering options
especially this is what I really like
the classifications.
So if you're familiar with Typekit adobe has been
coming up with all these different fonts that we can access
you have a limitation when you are a Creative Cloud user up to a hundred Typekit fonts at one time,
so you can always remove than add new ones
but on Typekit the browser version we already
have these nice clean way of classifying the fonts and find certain fonts
but now finally we can see the same icons and options here within the application as well.
So when I'm searching for fonts I can look for maybe serif fonts
and as . you can see immediately filters for them I can even choose slab serif and I love
the fact that they even explain what that means,
so it's a thick bold like serif.
So if you are not great in typography you're not
that familiar with these terms you can actually learn from this little pop-up
that we can see here.
So we have script again explained
flowing or calligraphic fonts,
brilliant I can very quickly find something like that and some of these
actually might suit better my design and when I hover over them
I can see immediately how it updates.
So probably like something like that
might work better, so if I choose that.
I can see it now finalized
so don't forget to
actually, click on it it's not enough to hover over a font,
you have to actually click on it to have it applied to your selection.
Now let's just come back here for a bit
and I wanted to also show that we have options
to change the size of the preview text
which is neat as well although I prefer the medium one I think
that's actually good but depending on your screen resolution,
you might want to change to smaller or bigger one.
If you want to get rid of your filtering
in this case the script font just click on clear all
so that removes the filtering.
Another feature that we have and this is not new but it's much easier to get to
is how to add a font to the favorites so if I want to find this font later on
all I have to do is to click on the little star icon and this icon only comes up
when you hover over a font.
So again it's in context it's not in the way
but it's there when you need it.
So that's that's great very easy to turn it into a
favorite but if I next time needed
I just have to click on this star filter
basically looking for the favorite fonts.
So that's again useful.
I also really like this additional filter icon the show activated fonts.
Now this actually means
Typekit fonts
so when you click on this these are all your Typekit fonts
and I love the fact that I can now finally, find them so quickly and easily.
Now once again let's clear our filters and if I have a font like the one that
we currently selected
but I'm not hundred percent sure whether this is the
best one that I have I can even click on show similar fonts.
This won't be restricted to showing script fonts it will just use the general look and feel
of this font and visually trying to match that with all the other fonts
that I have on my computer.
So I can go through and see the other options that I have here.
So that is really cool as well and of course if you want to look for
additional fonts so not fonts that you already have on your computer.
You can click on find more
and on find more basically, you will be looking for fonts from Typekit.
So these are the Adobe fonts that you can synchronize
and start you straight in Illustrator while being in find more of course we can also
select the classification and apart from the main categories we have even
properties here like we can choose regular weight or heavy weight fonts
and so on and so forth I don't want to go through all of this these are very
straightforward and easy to get used to working with
and last but not least
you have also an additional option show recently added.
So with this one, you can also find
your most recently installed or synchronized fonts on your computer
and that's all I wanted to show you in this video I hope you found it useful
and make sure to check back on our channel because I am going to go through
all the new features that came out for Photoshop InDesign and illustrator in
this most recent update.
Thanks a lot for watching and I'll see you in the next one.