Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Course 5: Use of Text: Character: how to choose a typeface / how to change to another weight / defining line spacing / defining tracking / defining kerning
By Aarón Martínez
About the video: Character: how to choose a typeface / how to change to another weight / defining line spacing / defining tracking / defining kerning
Overview
“In this unit, I will teach you how to change the font, its weight, and we will define the space between each letter and the distances between the paragraphs. ”
In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Character: how to choose a typeface / how to change to another weight / defining line spacing / defining tracking / defining kerning, 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 4 Character: How to choose a typeface / how to change to another weight / defining line spacing, tracking and kerning In this lesson we'll learn more about the Character tool, choosing different fonts and weight. We'll also make tracking, kerning and leading adjustments. Let's start. Now we will see how to change the font, the size and weight in a text. I will generate a text. "Typography test." We have this text. In the Control Panel, in Character, we see the name, Source Code Variable, and it's black. If we click here, we can see the variants in weight. We have...”
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Course summary for: Course 5: Use of Text

Aarón Martínez
By Aarón Martínez
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