Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Course 5: Use of Text: Text tool
By Aarón Martínez
About the video: Text tool
Overview
“In this unit, I will teach you how to create our first text freely and in a box. ”
In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Text tool, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 5: Use of Text. Learn how to generate texts as well as choose a typeface and adjust its characteristics to make it curved.
Partial transcription of the video
“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 5 LESSON 2 Text tool In this lesson we'll see the Type tool. We'll do it linearly and in a box. Let's start. We start our fifth course, which deals with text. We are going to create our first text with the tool we have on the left side of the toolbar. We select our Type tool, or with the T keyboard shortcut, and we are going to click in our artboard. I can write any word and I can enlarge it with the Type box, selecting the corners and edges. It's the same as with the figures and elements we created in the previous courses. I can also select the weight in points that this...”
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Course summary for: Course 5: Use of Text

Aarón Martínez
By Aarón Martínez
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