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Character options

Character options - Illustrator Tutorial

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Character options

- [Instructor] When you select or have active any text in Illustrator, you will get options here in the properties panel. And of course, if you're using it in the control strip at the top, but for the purpose of this movie and the movie afterwards what I'm going to do is I'm going to call for the whole panel. Now Command + T we'll get you through to the character and paragraph panels there that we'll be using, but otherwise you can go to the window menu come down to type and choose character from there. So there are a number of options here as you'd expect. So the first of which is the font family you're planning on using. So you can click there of course, and scroll through and find your font but I'm actually going to use Impact here. And some of my friends will have a good chuckle about this because it's not my favorite font, but there you go. And if there are any variants such as bold and Italic and so on, which there…

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