I have six illustrator typography settings that you probably don't use and
I'm gonna tell you why you should be using them
what is that people welcome back to Satori graphics a home graphic design
content right here on YouTube let's head right into my six typography
settings that you're not using and find out why you need to be using them in
Illustrator so firstly press command or control t to bring up the character
window I'm not sure if this is just in this traitor CC but there are two very
handy filters that you can find in here the first filter that I'm going to show
you is at the top and it's actually the favorites filter I haven't actually
favorited any funds yet but you can click the star icon next to a font to
add it to your favorites list then when you apply this filter all of your like
fonts are going to appear in a list of choices now this is something I'm going
to utilize in the future but something that's even cooler than this is the
similar fonts filter if you select some text in this traitor and then come into
the character window and click the similar font filter you'll be shown a
selection of fonts on your computer that are of a similar style this is a very
handy function that I use very often in my workflow the second illustrator
typography setting that you're probably not using is the coding style in the
character window you can find three options here that you might want to be
mindful of firstly have Auto kerning which assigns kerning values to font
pairs that common have problems so for example L nawa and so forth illustrator
uses a built in code the greater tighter are more visually pleasing kerning
between neighboring letters next we have optical kerning which is a
good choice for fonts with poorly built-in kerning by defaults it's also
perfect for sections of text or words that use more than one font or font size
lastly we have metrics roman only kerning which made his debut in
Illustrator cs4 now this is mainly used for Japanese typography but also adjust
Latin characters clear be mindful of these three settings in the character
window when you're next working on your typography project the third typography
setting illustrator is just a quick and easy way to orientate your text
vertically instead of horizontally now this can come in handy for specific
designs when you need vertical text so is useful to know this setting within
Adobe Illustrator another setting that you can find in Illustrator is going to
allow you to add certain symbols in just a couple of seconds anything that helps
you save time illustrator is good to know in my opinion so go up to type and
insert special character where you can find copyright symbols trademark symbols
and many other kind of marks symbols too as you can see here I've easily added
the trademark icon to my hand lettering without having to import or locate the
file somewhere on my computer the fifth setting for typography illustrator is
located in the preference panel under yeah you guessed it type
here you have two settings they want to quickly show you firstly you can change
the amount of previously used funds that's going to appear in the character
window but you can also change the size of that preview how it's going to appear
in the character panel so if we do move back over to the character panel you can
see I have five previously used funds and the preview on the right hand side
is actually quite large these are the settings I personally use so play around
with them and see what fits best for your workflow finally today there's a
quick way to access your previously used funds and that is here under type and
recently used once again this saves time for your workflow and it's always handy
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