Using Warichu in Japanese Text - Illustrator Typography
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 …
Using Middle Eastern & South Asian Composers in Adobe 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 …
Working with Styles Effectively in Adobe Illustrator
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 …
Perfecting Punctuation and Sentence Endings - Illustrator Typography
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 …
Using Hyphens and Dashes Properly - Illustrator Typography
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 …
Building Fractions That Fit - Illustrator Typography
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 …
Using Small Caps Correctly - Illustrator Typography
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 …
Understanding the Timing of 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 …
Using the Touch Type Tool in Adobe Illustrator
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 …