0 1 00:00:00,133 --> 00:00:02,031 Hi there, in this video we're going to learn... 1 2 00:00:02,056 --> 00:00:04,344 the Touch Type Tool in Adobe Illustrator. 2 3 00:00:04,508 --> 00:00:08,664 And by the looks of this, we are going to pick some really, really bad fonts. 3 4 00:00:08,813 --> 00:00:11,023 All right, let's go and learn how to use it now. 4 5 00:00:11,133 --> 00:00:13,672 Step 1, in your Type Tool, type some text. 5 6 00:00:14,414 --> 00:00:15,438 Pick a font. 6 7 00:00:16,086 --> 00:00:18,390 I'm going to pick Trajan, because I just wanted to show you... 7 8 00:00:18,415 --> 00:00:20,507 like there's some new Open Type fonts... 8 9 00:00:20,532 --> 00:00:22,376 SVG fonts, that actually have color in them. 9 10 00:00:23,063 --> 00:00:24,867 Cool thing about them is, if I select on them... 10 11 00:00:25,875 --> 00:00:27,281 there's lots of different color options. 11 12 00:00:28,953 --> 00:00:31,609 Getting off the topic, let's grab the Touch Type Tool. 12 13 00:00:32,585 --> 00:00:34,672 Click and hold the 'Type Tool', he's down the bottom here. 13 14 00:00:35,375 --> 00:00:37,710 And what you do is, you click on a text... 14 15 00:00:37,735 --> 00:00:40,740 and it's basically all four corners, plus those dots... 15 16 00:00:40,765 --> 00:00:41,929 there's something different. 16 17 00:00:42,055 --> 00:00:45,171 The Baseline Shift, you can either grab this button down the bottom left... 17 18 00:00:45,196 --> 00:00:47,180 or just grab the center of it, it's probably easier. 18 19 00:00:48,141 --> 00:00:50,516 Next letter, bottom right... 19 20 00:00:50,852 --> 00:00:51,914 does the width. 20 21 00:00:52,079 --> 00:00:56,031 That is a crime against fonts, by doing either that... 21 22 00:00:56,056 --> 00:00:58,422 or the top down. 22 23 00:00:58,641 --> 00:01:02,031 You're not allowed to squish fonts, you're not allowed to do that. 23 24 00:01:02,523 --> 00:01:03,578 It's the rules. 24 25 00:01:04,153 --> 00:01:07,231 Top right is fine, because we can resize it, it's okay. 25 26 00:01:08,086 --> 00:01:09,656 You're not breaking any Type rules. 26 27 00:01:09,727 --> 00:01:12,039 This one here, the little dot at the top is rotation. 27 28 00:01:12,469 --> 00:01:15,094 You can grab these guys, rotate it, move it up. 28 29 00:01:15,930 --> 00:01:17,422 Grab this guy, move him. 29 30 00:01:17,609 --> 00:01:21,734 So you can kind of build this kind of complex looking bit of Type. 30 31 00:01:21,930 --> 00:01:25,016 And the cool thing about it is that it is still editable. 31 32 00:01:25,406 --> 00:01:27,375 We can break the Type apart and do it... 32 33 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,617 but you wouldn't get the option to pick new colors or fonts. 33 34 00:01:32,513 --> 00:01:33,906 So you can change the fonts. 34 35 00:01:33,931 --> 00:01:35,349 I'm going to make a couple of copies... 35 36 00:01:35,374 --> 00:01:37,727 'Command D', or 'Control D' to get a few versions. 36 37 00:01:38,958 --> 00:01:40,820 I picked Trajan, terrible. 37 38 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,984 Let's go to the full terrible font list. 38 39 00:01:44,442 --> 00:01:46,695 Let's go 'Papyrus'. 39 40 00:01:48,797 --> 00:01:53,070 Let's change it to - what's another bad one? - Brush Script. 40 41 00:01:53,242 --> 00:01:56,914 These are all, like continued font tragedies. 41 42 00:01:57,141 --> 00:01:59,343 Comic Sans is the worst, the offender of them all. 42 43 00:02:00,227 --> 00:02:03,477 It's a little bit of a quick tutorial, because I don't use it very much. 43 44 00:02:03,617 --> 00:02:06,039 I feel like you should know that as an advanced user. 44 45 00:02:07,398 --> 00:02:10,960 I guess you can go through and change the Type now, which is cool. 45 46 00:02:11,734 --> 00:02:15,476 So if you're doing some sort of ransom letter... 46 47 00:02:15,501 --> 00:02:17,547 you feel like that could be quite cool for it... 47 48 00:02:17,789 --> 00:02:19,922 you can go and use the Touch Type Tool. 48 49 00:02:19,947 --> 00:02:23,577 All right, that is going to be it for this section on Advanced Type... 49 50 00:02:23,602 --> 00:02:24,828 all these extra videos. 50 51 00:02:24,992 --> 00:02:26,883 Let's get on to the next section.