Hi, this is Anne for Graphic Design How To, and today we're going to talk about the Vertical
Type Tools and the Touch Type Tool.
So I downloaded this graphic from freepik.com, and it's an eclipse graphic because that's
coming right up here in about a month.
I think right off the bat, we ought to just make a new layer and lock these other two
layers.
This is not a beginner graphic.
It's very advanced.
It's got all kinds of things going on, and it's hard to not click this when we're messing
with other stuff.
So let's go ahead and lock those, and make sure you're highlighted on Layer 3.
I've got some type already typed out over here.
And I'm going to highlight all of that (CMD A), copy, (CMD C).
And now we get our Vertical Type Tool.
And I'm just going to click once, and then paste.
Since this is point text, there's no wrapping.
It'll go on until you hit return.
So this is what the Downward Text Tool will do.
It just types downward.
OK, I'm going to delete this.
I'll choose the Vertical Type Tool and draw a box here.
And now I'll paste (CMD V).
And as you can see, it pastes it in here.
Now the weird thing is, these vertical text boxes, paste right to left instead of left
to right.
So everything is lined up on this side, instead of this side.
I think these tools are more used for Asian writing, and so that's how they write they...they
do right to left.
There is no easy way that Illustrator gives us to switch this left to right, so now it
reads, "It's the Vertical Area Type Tool," and it's right to left.
If you guys want to know how to make this read left to right, I can do a tutorial on
that, but it involves a script.
And so I'll have to walk you through that.
If anyone wants to know, just let me know in the comment section.
I just think that these tools...
I have actually never used them before researching for this tutorial, so I don't know if they're
that useful to someone who uses English.
Let's go ahead and move on to the next type tool, which is the Vertical Area Type Tool.
For this, I'm going to unlock our Objects.
I'm going to click right on the edge of this, copy, SHIFT CMD A to clear, and then CMD F
to paste in front.
Hit V, and bring the corners in.
So this is just a little smaller now.
It has a weird gradient fill on it, so I'm going to clear that with the question mark.
I will copy my next line, copy.
And now I don't know where this is, so let's do CMD Y to find it again.
And there it is.
Now we'll use the Vertical Area Type Tool.
Click right on the edge of that.
And I'll paste.
And as you can see, this is also reading right to left instead of left to right like we're
used to reading.
All right, so let's delete that.
Let's move on to the Vertical Type on a Path Tool.
So we'll need a path for this too, starting out.
I'll go ahead and click on this edge again.
Copy and paste in front, that's CMD F, and then hit V and bring your corners in.
And then hit question mark to clear.
And now we'll go back to our Type on a Path Vertically Tool.
So you can just click right on that edge, and then paste.
Now this is coming in as black, so I'm going to hit CMD A, and then do white.
And now you can see that this is also typing right to left, unfortunately.
It's still a pretty cool effect if you are into that kind of thing.
Let's delete that.
OK, now we'll touch a little on the Touch Type Tool.
So to use Touch Type, you just highlight a word that you wrote.
I'm using Impact for this, which is not my favorite font in the world, but it's a font
that's on almost everyone's computers.
So Impact it is.
Once you get to this point where you have it highlighted, hit SHIFT T, and that'll get
you to the Touch Type Tool.
Now click on one letter.
And now we have some points here that we can manipulate.
We can pull this in.
We can rotate up here.
You have to be right on that top dot to be able to rotate, and you can move it here and
actually, you can just move it if you click in the middle and drag.
So I'm going to move this over here.
Let's get the 'C'.
And I'll make this one a little bit bigger.
You can also hold SHIFT to get it proportional.
And we'll just move this right up here.
Click the next one.
I'll rotate this, maybe make it a little wider.
Oops, wider.
And then the 'I', I'll put up here...and reduce the size a little bit,
and we'll squeeze this over and resize this.
The rest of the text will respond to what you did earlier.
So now we have kind of a cool little effect.
It makes it more playful to have this kind of bouncy text going on.
The really cool thing about the Touch Type Tool is, all of this is still live.
You could easily do this with outline text, and it wouldn't be hard to do at all, but
it's still live right now.
So if we switch back to the Text Tool...and I'll hit T. If you look at your Character
Palette, you can see what's happening with each of these letters.
It's basically using Baseline Shift and the Rotate.
So, like for example, our L is a different rotation and baseline shift than the rest
of these characters.
If you want to change this to a different word, and still maintain each angle and size,
you have to do them one by one.
So If I wanted to change this to 'Earth', I would just highlight this, highlight this
one, highlight this one...you have to do it that way because if you just type it...
I'll back up, undo, undo, undo.
If you just start typing from here, it'll match the style of the first letter
instead of what you're really wanting.
So keep that in mind.
That's something to think about.
One thing about Touch Type that's really awesome, is, if you're on a Cintiq, or another touch
monitor, you can do it with your fingers or a Wacom pen.
I don't have one of those so I can't show you, but I know there's other videos out there
that they go over that, so check those out.
If you want to learn about the other type tools, I made a tutorial about those last
week, so I'll leave that link in the description too.
All right, that's my tutorial for the day.
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