8 Adding Type to a Poster

Text as a design element plays a major role in your illustrations. Like other objects, type can be painted, scaled, rotated, and more. In this lesson, you’ll discover how to create basic text and interesting text effects.

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

  • Create and edit area and point type.

  • Import text.

  • Change text formatting.

  • Fix missing fonts.

  • Modify text with the Touch Type tool.

  • Work with Glyphs.

  • Create columns of text.

  • Create and edit paragraph and character styles.

  • Wrap ...

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