Tag: vector

Warichu—or split annotation—is the East Asian typographic method of setting secondary or less important text in smaller double or triple lines. Adobe Illustrator CC has full support for East Asian typography, including robust Warichu options. In this tutorial clip from the 50-minute module (chapter) on “Working with Asian and Indic Type” in Pariah Burke’s Illustrator…

When working in Hindi, Punjabi, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or any of two dozen other Middle Eastern or South Asian languages, you’ll want to make use of the correct paragraph composition engine in Adobe Illustrator CC. This tutorial will show you how to do just that. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, Illustrator CC…

In this tutorial clip you will learn efficient paragraph and character style management and use techniques in Adobe Illustrator CC, including: Importing Graphic, Paragraph, and Character Styles from Other Files Sharing Styles with Other Illustrator Users Using CC Libraries to Store, Reuse, and Share Styles to Yourself and Others And, Cleaning Unused Styles from Documents…

In this tutorial clip you will learn how to… Use Adobe Illustrator’s Smart Punctuation for automatic clean up of dumb quotes, missing ligatures, and more. Hang punctuation for better, cleaner flush edges. How many spaces should REALLY be after a period. How many punctuation marks to use at the end of sentences. And, how to…

Do you know the difference between the hyphen, en dash, and em dash? Do you know when to use each to avoid embarrassing typographic and grammatical mistakes? Do you know how to insert all of them in Adobe Illustrator? Watch this quick video tutorial, and you’ll be able to answer “Yes!” to every one of…

Creating fractions that don’t look anemic or spindly beside the rest of your text is easy but not entirely obvious to even frequent users of Adobe Illustrator. In this tutorial you will learn how to create well-formed, believable fractions using ANY combination of one, two, three, or more numbers in both the numerator and denominator…

Small caps, when used correctly, are common parts of typographic style. In this tutorial you will learn how small caps are often used incorrectly, how and when to use them correctly in any application, and what Illustrator can do with small caps. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, Illustrator CC Typography.

Type has only 1 second to grab someone’s eye. Then it has only 3 seconds to convey it’s prima facie message. In some cases, your entire design has only 6 seconds to communicate it’s entire meaning, 6 seconds before the viewer’s eyes are gone forever. In this clip, you’ll learn about these timing rules as…

Adobe Illustrator’s Touch Type Tool is a powerful, quick, and FUN way of transforming one or more letters within live, fully-editable type without having to jump around to a bunch of fields and panels. In this tutorial clip, you’ll learn to use the Touch Type Tool on a logo design to quickly move, rotate, and…

Learn tricks for sizing type without compromising quality, unnecessary mental acrobatics, or losing your train of thought. In this tutorial you will learn incredibly handy, master-level type sizing tricks including: Resizing Type with the Black Arrow Using Decimal Values Entering Values That Are Not Points Shortcutting Type Sizing with Percentages Doing Math in Type Fields…