Author: grant

Chapter 84. Creating Character And Paragraph Styles 7:42

  • DRY
  • Perhaps
    • Can I automate the insertion of all the character pretty close to where they should be on their own layers
    • Apply a character style to everything on that layers Have all of the work done automatically?
  • Create a paragraph style based on the formatting that you performed on a paragraph
    • Same for characters
    • Extracting types from selected text
    • Develop styles that mean something to you
  • Do I configure text via style or via the entire layer?
    • Put in KQS
  • Can Load (Import) Character styles from another document
    • Perhaps create a document just to store all of those Styles for use by other files?
  • Can change styles globally
    • As you would expect

Chapter 83. The Character And Paragraph Panels 9:02

  • Always show options
    • Access in a panel the more thing and you see everything
    • Do this for all Typography stuff
  • Suitcase lets you only show fonts that you are working with per app
    • Helpful because in my keycaps I only use a few
    • $120USD
    • RightFont seems to do the same thing for $50USD
    • Emailed both to see if they have the right tool for what I want
  • What style should I use for the keycaps?
    • Is Bold easier to read?
  • Leading is the amount of the space between lines of text
  • New reading size for fonts is 11
  • Kearning is the space between individual letters V/A<-
  • Tracking is the spae between whole words <-VA->
  • T: Vertical scale
  • T: Horizontal scale
  • Baseline shift: raise up the word higher or lower
    • Super and subscript?
    • There is a setting for that
  • Rotate character
    • Thinking of rotating the Ekeman faces
    • Thinking of rotating the Emacs meta keys to make them clearly something new
  • Small bold and everything
  • Paragraph settings
    • Just have to be in the paragraph to change its attributes
  • Styles let you automate all of the customization that you made in one paragraph so you can do the same thing to another

Chapter 81. Creating Custom Type Containers 7:14

  • Type Tool vs Area Text Tool
    • Former is always rectangle or square
    • Latter lets you convert an area into a writable area
  • Option-Actions operates from center, keep forgetting
  • When you convert a Path to be a Area Text Tool it becomes invisible because it is just a place to hold Text
  • Shift-Click selects multiple objects
  • Align is always relative to something
  • Shape Builder Tool
    • Select multiple objects
    • Click this tool
    • Draw a line through objects that you want to join
  • Paste In Place
  • Demo simple way to put text into a shape by using a copy of the shape

Chapter 80. Container And Point Type 11:10

  • Text
    • Ain’t boring
    • Can do anything to Text
  • Use the Typography workspace
  • AI falls into the category of Typesetter
    • Like LaTeX?
  • Use InDesign (ID) for writing
  • Point text ignores the right margin
    • You gotta hit Enter to get a new line
  • If a Text object has focus and you want to insert text somewhere else
    • Command-Click then release and the cursor changes to a box so you can insert a Text
  • Drag a giant Text area
    • Soft-returns happen automatically in here
    • This is Container Text
  • Twist Text
    • Container; text remains vertical and fills bounds
    • Point: text rotates
  • Ditto for resizing box
  • Double-click the bar-thing to switch between Point and Container text

Chapter 60. Getting Creative With The Scissors And Knife Tools 8:39

  • Looking at more maker tools Scissors and Knife
    • Under the Eraser
  • Both work on a selected Object
  • Hold while either is selected hold down Command to get the Selection tool
  • Knife creates closed dynamic shapes
  • Scissors cuts a path that opens it up
  • Hold Shift when dragging Anchors to go straight
  • Scissors lets you chop apart ellipses into halve parts
  • Option-Drag objects creates a duplicate
  • Below the left bar color thing are
    • Set path and stroke to black and white
    • White box with red slash through it is “nothing”
  • Fun lesson!

Chapter 59. Using Join And Average On Open Paths 5:57

  • Simple shapes can be made into complex objects
  • Andy started with AI in ’87
    • Was already in natural media industry all his life
    • Wanted to get into new computer media
    • First attempts were frustrating but learned that
      • Practice makes perfect
      • You don’t have to draw the Mona Lisa
        • Instead draw simple shapes that can be made into the Mona Lisa
  • Double-Clicking the hand tool, not the zoom tool, returns the zoom to 100%
  • You can weld two Anchor points
    • Only two
    • This is Marqueeing that area
    • Use the Direct Selection Tool A
    • Be sure you only got two
  • Sometimes you want to consider the curvature of the two lines
    • This is the Average operation
    • Both is cool
    • Join helps, too
  • Easily make complex shapes out of simple objects

Chapter 57. Controlling Paths With Anchors 6:25

  • Anchors are connected by Paths which hold Strokes
  • Anchors control the path
  • When the Pen tool has an asterisk next to it, it is telling that you are creating a new shape. You are not connecting it to anything. It is bran new.
  • When you hover an Pen that is creating Anchors over another Anchor and an open circle appears it means that you are going to “close the object”
  • How to create an open shape: A straight line for example
    • Couple ways
    • Go pick up another tool and switch back, never do this
    • Click to drop first Anchor, then second Anchor, then hit enter
  • If you Click-And-Drag to drop an Anchor, you can make non-straight lines
  • If you select the Direct Selection Tool and hover over an Anchor, it makes the anchor really big
    • Drag the Anchors around to reshape the object
    • Select as many anchors that you want
    • Bendy lines get reshaped too