Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to add fonts in
Adobe Illustrator. First, we'll go over how to get free fonts from the internet and upload them into
Adobe Illustrator, and this will work with all versions of Illustrator. So if you have an older
version, like CS6, or CS5, it'll work for that. Then for those of you who have Creative Cloud,
I'll go over how to activate typekit fonts, which are now Adobe Fonts. And then finally, if you like
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let's get started. Google fonts are all free for personal and commercial use. So I really like
to use those. And they have a lot of really nice ones. So I'm just going to type in Google fonts.
And we'll bring up that website, which is right here. So all of these fonts are free. But it can
be a little hard to find something that you think will look good. And I almost always
use my fonts with another font. So I'd like to look at Google Font pairings. So I'll just type
in Google Font pairing, and here are a bunch of articles. So I'm going to click this first one.
And over here is the name of the font and then this will be the smaller font. So
this is the headline: Roboto Condensed Bold. And Kevin Regular is the smaller
font. So we can just look through these and find one that looks nice.
Okay, and I'm really liking this Work Sans Light. So now we'll go back to our Google fonts.
And I'll type in Work Sans, and here it is. Click on that. And then we can just come up
here to Download Family. When we do this, if you're on Google Chrome, it'll come right down
here to the bottom right, and then you can just click this carrot and choose Show in Finder.
It'll most likely go to your Downloads folder. If you're on a different browser, it's probably going
to be somewhere up here, if it's not down here at the bottom. But anyway, it'll come in as a
zip file. Now if you're on a Mac, all you have to do is just double click this. If you're on a PC,
you'll want to right click and choose Extract or Extract all or something like that. And then it'll
make a new folder with a bunch of fonts inside and some README text, stuff like that. It'll also come
with the open font license. And this just tells everything that you can use it for. It's totally
okay to use it for commercial projects, something that you're selling and those types of things.
Alright, so there are two fonts here that end in TTF. I'm going to highlight both. And then
I'm just going to hit CMD O or CTRL O on a PC. To open them on a Mac, you'll just hit Install Font,
and you'll have something similar on a PC -it'll just say, you know, Install or
something like that. So now it's installed. Now we have to remember that it's called Work Sans.
Okay, so I'm here in Illustrator, I'm just going to go to Create New, and I'll come up here to
Print, choose Letter and Create. Okay, now we can hit T on our keyboard, which will bring us to the
Text tool. And I'm just going to click once, which will give us some lorem ipsum. Now, if you're
on an older version of Illustrator, you probably won't see lorem ipsum. You'll just have a blinking
cursor, and then you can start typing something. So I'm going to type in the name of my font,
I'll click back on my Selection tool and then get on a corner, start dragging, and then hold
SHIFT to make it a little bit bigger. And now we can choose the character right up here. And that
will be Work Sans. So you can just start typing that, and it should populate. And here are all
the different options within Work Sans. Okay, so I think we'll go with semi bold right here. So it's
kinda easy to get a downloaded font installed and then showing up in Illustrator. Basically, if you
install it, it should automatically show up in your Illustrator list, you just have to remember
the name of it so you know what to search for. I want to show you a few different ways that you
can use type in Illustrator just real quick. One way that I think is pretty cool is to hit SHIFT T,
SHIFT T will bring you to your Touch Type tool. That's this one right over here. And
then you can just click on a letter. And there are a few options here. If you do this top one,
you can rotate it. If you do this upper left one, you can make it taller or shorter.
And then the upper right just makes it bigger or smaller, and it's proportional.
And then this one down here at the bottom right, you can make it wider or skinnier.
And if you click and drag, you can position it and then click the next one and position
it however you want. Maybe rotate it a little. So that's a fun way to use type in Illustrator.
You can also get back on your Selection tool, hold a corner and hold SHIFT and just resize like this,
or kind of hover out beyond the corner to rotate the whole word like that. And then if
you want to outline the text, it's a good idea to make a copy first because you won't be able
to type into the outlined text. So I'm going to hold OPTION or ALT and just click and drag this
so it's off the screen. Then we'll select the original one. We'll come down here to Type and
Create Outlines. Now if you get on your Selection tool, select it and then hit A, you can see all
the little points that make up the text. So you can use your A tool, the Direct Selection tool,
to click those points and just pull them if you want to. So you could do something
like this. And then you could get on your Smooth tool, which is under your Pencil tool,
and just go over those same points to kind of smooth them out. So they look a little more
intentional. Now, if you have Creative Cloud, you can use Typekit. And actually, I think that is now
called Adobe Fonts. And it's included with your subscription. So let's just google Adobe Fonts.
And it should be the first thing that pops up. And I'm just going to come up here to Browse Fonts.
Now over here to the left, we have the type of font. So let's go ahead and choose Calligraphic.
And I'll show you all the calligraphic fonts. I'm really liking this Ed's Market. So I'll choose
View Family. And then over here on the right, you'll see Activate Fonts. So I'm just going
to click that. I think we'll do bold script. And it'll say that it's successful hopefully,
and then we can go back to Illustrator. Now we have to remember Ed's Market, of course,
then I'll hit T to get to my Text tool, and I'll click once. And I'll just type
Hello, I'll get back on my Selection tool, grab a corner and hold SHIFT and resize it.
And then I'll hit CMD T or CTRL T to bring up my Character palette. I'll start typing Ed's.
And here is the Market bold script. So it's that easy to activate a font and typekit.
Pretty simple. Now I've had the Typekit or Adobe Fonts not upload into Illustrator. And
the way I solve that is to come out here to the Creative Cloud App, make sure you're logged in,
and then it should show up in this list. Sometimes I've clicked Previously Active and Active to
make it show up. Then when you go back out to Illustrator, it should be there. So hopefully
that'll work for you. Alright, if you liked this video and you want to see more videos like this,
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