Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Overview

“In this unit, I will teach you the alternative characters that typography gives us to obtain a different appearance for each letter (not all fonts have extra characters). ”

In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Opentype, 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 6 Opentype In this lesson we will see the OpenType tool. We will learn to apply alternate characters in fonts. Let's start. Now we'll go to the Type option, OpenType. Here we'll see the alternate characters of each typeface. I will create a text, and we will generate letters and words. I'm going to duplicate this. I'll leave a single capital letter. A lowercase letter. Here, if I want to change uppercase to lowercase... I'll write the word "phone" in all caps. If I want to change this part to lowercase, I go to Type, the Change Case option, I press Escape, and I ...”

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Course summary for: Course 5: Use of Text

• Level: Beginner
• 11 students
• 14 units
• 14 lessons (1h 27m)
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