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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
