2Designing Type & Layout

Designing Type & Layout

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INTRODUCTION

This chapter focuses on tips and tricks related to working with the type tools, as well as design and layout. While Chapter 1 covers the basics of working with multiple artboards, you’ll find some of the more advanced issues of working with multiple artboards later on in this introduction, and in lessons in this chapter.

The seven Type panels

For creating and manipulating type, Illustrator offers no fewer than seven panels, all accessible from the Window> Type sub-menu. In addition to the usual Paragraph, Character, and Styles panels, you’ll find panels for Open Type, Tabs, and Glyphs. ...

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