We all know that with Adobe Illustrator you make graphic designs on an artboard. It is intended for the artistic creation of drawing and painting, using the line tool, simple shapes, pen, eraser, scissor, and knife in Adobe Illustrator. But you can also use and configure the text tool in Adobe Illustrator | Insert texts.
Text is a very important part of Adobe Illustrator when you go desktop publishing, draw a logo, or use text to create an image. The options offered by Adobe Illustrator are formidable when using the Text tool.
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Use and configure the text tools when inserting text at a point
Entering text at a point begins where you click; then it is spread out in a horizontal or vertical line as characters are inserted. This is useful when few words need to be added to the illustration.
To insert text in this way, follow these steps:
- You must select the Text tool or the Vertical Text tool. When we do this step, the mouse pointer turns into an I inside the dotted box. The small horizontal line next to the bottom of I places the position of the baseline.
- Then you can set the text formatting options in the control panel, for this, there are the Character or Paragraph options. In Character, you can define font family, font style, line spacing, among others. In Paragraph, you can define indentation, alignment, among other options.
- Click where you want to start the line of text. You need to make sure you don’t click on an existing object because then it becomes area text or text on a path.
- Type the text and hit “Enter” on Windows or “Return” on Mac OS, to start a line of text.
- When you’re done entering text, click the “Selection” tool to select the text object.
Use and configure the text tool when inserting text in an area
To enter text in an area, the boundaries of an object are used to control the flow of characters, either horizontally or vertically. When the text reaches one of the limits of the defined area, it adapts automatically.
This method of entering text is widely used when you want to include one or more paragraphs in a brochure; for example. To do this, the following steps are followed:
- We must first define the bounding area. To do this, you must select the Text or Vertical Text tool and drag diagonally to define the delimited area.
- Draw the object you want to use as the bounding area, then select the Text tool you want to use.
- Then you must click somewhere on the object’s path. Define text formatting options with Character or Paragraph options.
- After defining the text format options, the text is written.
- You press the “Enter” key in Windows or “Return” in Mac OS to start a new paragraph.
- When you finish entering the text, click the “Selection” tool to choose the text object. When you enter more text than can fit in the text area, a plus sign (+) will appear at the bottom. If you want you can change the size of the text area, in this way you can see the overflowing text.
As you have seen, you can learn in a simple and easy way to use the Text tool in Adobe Illustrator. We invite you to continue visiting our page, and continue learning more interesting topics about useful tools.