From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

Basic type options

From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

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Basic type options

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- [Instructor] Let's take a quick look at the basic type options that we have in Illustrator for iPad. I'll choose the title and tap. This will create a point type text container, double tap to select the type that is in it and then replace that with your own. With point type, if I want to scale it, I can just drag from any of these handles and that will scale the type proportionally. I can also use the text size slider on my common task bar which appears beneath the selected text container. I can also adjust the letter spacing and these options, we will also find over here on the properties panel. We have size, we have line spacing, not relevant at the moment since I only have a single line, we have kerning and we have tracking or letter spacing. Beneath these, we have the casing options, upper case, small caps, and then underline and strike through. If I want to adjust the kerning and just before I do that I will set the letter spacing back to what it was. I'll need to tap into my text container and insert the cursor between the letter pair that I want to affect, kerning being the adjustment of space between a pair of characters. I'll zoom in to a tight view size. Then on my properties panel, come to the kerning field. If I want to bring the y closer to the T, I'll reduce that value. I'll now delete that point type text container, choose my type tool again, tap and drag and this will give me an area text container. Once again, I can double tap to select the text that's in there and just before I replace it, I'm going to size it down a bit and now bring back my keyboard and I'll type in my text. This is a famous quote by type designer, Matthew Carter. To change the typeface, I'll come to my font list, I see here all of the fonts that I have activated through Adobe Fonts as well as some others that I've activated independently of Adobe Fonts. I can also browse if I come and click on more fonts by these tags. So for example, Art Deco would give me these options. Often, if you know what you're after it's easier to go to the find field and just start typing in the first few characters. And I'm going to use a typeface here Galliot designed by Matthew Carter. On my properties panel, I'll set the alignment to centered. With area type, if I pull on one of the handles, I'm not scaling the type but I'm changing the dimensions of the text frame. If I need to change the size of the type, I can do that on the properties panel or on the common task bar. With multiline type, I also have the option of changing the line spacing or letting, and I can do that here on the properties panel or here on my task bar. So those are the basic type options that we have at our disposal. Let's now go on and see what we can do with them.

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