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Working with ultra-compressed type

Working with ultra-compressed type

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Working with ultra-compressed type

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- [Nigel] Hi, I'm Nigel French. Welcome to Type Tips. This week, I'm in Illustrator and I'd like to show you how to create this treatment, using this super ultra compressed typeface called Fit. And Fit is available on Adobe Fonts. There are several weights of it. Here I'm using the condensed and the extra condensed. So I'm going to move to a second art board where I have just the text. And I'm going to need to break this into three separate pieces. So I'll just duplicate that, dragging away from it, holding down the Alt key. And then just delete the bits that I don't need from each of these chunks. And we'll take the supporting words and put them onto the pasteboard and then get the main word, put on the art board. Before we go any further, we need a grid. So I'm going to make one using my rectangle tool. Now, I happen to know that the size of my art board is 297 by 210 millimeters. That's the size of an A4 landscape…

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