today I'm going to show you everything you need to know about the illustrator
type tool and there are some tips and techniques in today's video and I'm
pretty sure you don't already know about and can utilize for your very own
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if you navigate to the type tool here you can then click and hold down that
click and then drag this button here to the side to bring out all of the various
type tools in one group also just a quick tip press command or control T to
bring up the character window it's just always handy to have this in conjunction
with the type tool now with the standard type tool you're going to notice that
when I click the artboard placeholder text appears
and also if I click and drag to make a text box it is automatically filled with
placeholder text and this is simply because I have a certain setting
activated in the preference settings and you can find that here as it reads this
auto fills objects with text in Illustrator so now that we know
illustrator can auto fill objects with text let's experiment a bit now below I
have a square and if I grab the standard type tool and then click the stroke line
text is auto filled and it's also works with other shapes too
and of course you can also use the vertical type tool which will do the
exact same thing but just vertical text instead now the type on a path tool is
exactly that it lays out type on a path and remember if you don't like the
placeholder text in just simply turn it off in the Preferences menu now for the
next tip or a technique let's focus on this abel shape here we can actually
head into the type drop-down menu here and then select the type on a path
option with the preview box checked watch as I adjust the settings and skew
actually skews the text around the oval that looks pretty neat actually but yet
the 3d ribbon gives us some more ugly effect and there are other settings too
for you to play with one very handy setting however is that you can adjust
where the text falls on the path in relation to the path itself so above
below you know centered and so forth
also there is a spacing setting which I prefer to do outside of this window and
in the character window itself
the next tip for you to work on is text wrapping which I'm quickly going to show
you here you need to place your text behind the object that you want to wrap
it around then select both design elements and the head into the text wrap
settings here so as you can see illustrator has added space around the
object relating to the text and you can then adjust how big the gap is in the
text wrap settings this is very handy for such things as magazine articles
certain Flyers and other editorial designs
now you might have seen this little red symbol here on your text box and this
just essentially means that you've got some text that cannot fit into the box
and it runs off the box area you can take this election tool and then click
the square twice and then click away from the text box and I will generate
the remaining lost text now this is very handy again for magazine articles and
editorial design projects but of course the bounding box and the connecting line
is not going to appear on your printout projects lastly today it is very
probable that on big projects you might end up with empty text boxes lying
around you can't delete them by selecting them and hitting backspace but
on a complex design with many elements it's going to be very difficult to do
that so instead you can use the clean up option and then select empty text box
setting this will remove all empty text boxes on your artboard which is really
handy indeed you don't want these lying around anywhere so there was today's
short but comprehensive guide on the type tool in Adobe Illustrator let me
know if you learn something and also remember if you want to keep boosting
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