Chapter 15
Formatting Area Type
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding how area type works in Illustrator
Editing text in Illustrator
Styling fonts, type size, and spacing
Laying out area type in columns
Flowing type from one box to another
Wrapping text around objects
Illustrator gives you, the print designer, micro control over how type looks. You can choose from thousands of Adobe fonts bundled at no additional cost with your Creative Cloud license. You can fine-tune how those fonts are displayed, changing the size and the vertical and horizontal spacing, and applying styles such as boldface, italic, underline, and strikethrough. And you can control how blocks of text interact with other objects, including flowing text around artwork or placing text inside shapes and paths.
Before I go any further, let me identify two ways you can work with typography in Illustrator: point type and area ...
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