From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
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The Touch Type tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
The Touch Type tool
- [Instructor] Let's go to the toolbox and tap T on our keyboard, and then long-press on the title so that we can see all of the different tools in the Type family in Illustrator. And just down at the bottom here, you've got this one, the Touch Type Tool, which I'm often surprised that so many people ever let it escape their attention, because it's quite useful and it has creative purposes, as well as functional purposes, for setting kerning in a visual way. Let's select that, then, and you can see here that it tells us to click on a character to select. But first of all, I'm going to zoom in on the top here. Actually, I'll just tap zed here for a moment, or Z, to get my Zoom Tool, and we'll zoom in, and then move up to the top here. Okay, making sure I've got no active text, hold down the Shift key and tap T to get the Touch Type Tool. It sounds like it's going to teach you something. And as we come along and click on…
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