20. Style & Edit type

Image

In This Chapter

Selecting type

Changing the font family and style

Changing the font size

Changing the leading value

Applying kerning and tracking

Using smart punctuation

Inserting alternate glyphs

Applying hyphenation

Changing paragraph alignment

Changing paragraph indentation

Changing inter-paragraph spacing

Using paragraph and character styles

Hanging punctuation

Setting tabs

Changing the baseline shift value

Creating type outlines

Creating special effects with type

Exercise: Create a shadow for point type

Applying appearance attributes to type

Exercise: Add multiple strokes to a character

Exercise: Use the Free Distort ...

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