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So, next, we're gonna do something
a little different rather than just typing
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and drawing our section.
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We're going to use this rectangle
as the container for our type.
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And it's handy because we've
already lined everything up, so
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we know that it's in the correct place.
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When the icon changes to have a dotted
circle around your cursor click here.
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And so now you can see that we've changed
this rectangle shape to a container
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for our type.
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This is gonna be body text that
talks about different events
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pertaining to this image on the right.
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For body text designers often use what’s
called Lorem Ipsum, which is a Latin text.
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And it’s just dummy text.
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So I’m gonna hop over to
the Inter Web really fast.
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And there are a lot of
Lorem Ipsum generators so
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this one is not necessarily the best.
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I'm just gonna hop down here.
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I really don't need very much.
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One paragraph will generate.
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Give me some Latin text please.
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And now I'm gonna, [SOUND] that's enough.
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So I'll do Cmd+C to copy,
to put that in my clipboard.
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Back into Illustrator.
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Make sure that this is selected and
hit Cmd+V.
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And we can see that this is gigantic.
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So I'm gonna do select all,
command A to select all that text.
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This will be body text, so
I don't want it to be bold.
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And I'm gonna make it
a more reasonable size, 14.
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And this looks itty-bitty, but we're also
scaled right now, as you can see, at 33%.
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So let's scale up so
we have a better idea,
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I'm just zooming in, of what we're doing.
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Now we're at 100%.
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It doesn't seem so ridiculous.
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I think this size is good, but
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what I wanna do is add more
space in between the lines.
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To do this, we're gonna go to Window.
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Window > Type > Character, and it's Cmd+T
if you just wanna open it up like that.
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And now with our text selected, I want
to increase the space between the lines,
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which is right here.
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This is your letting, is what it's called.
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So we are gonna change this.
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I'll do 24, since the type itself is 14,
so put about 10 points between each line.
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I think that's much more readable and
nicer, also rather than having it black,
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I will choose a gray.
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Right above this I would
like to have a larger title
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which will be heading three.
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So it'll be smaller than heading
two which is at 50 points.
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So I will make this one 36.
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And also bold.
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I'm gonna zoom out just to kinda, okay.
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Yeah, and that looks nice.
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I feel like this is a little too dark.
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Let's go one shade lighter.
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Okay, much nicer.
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And so now I am going to select this box.
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Click inside.
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Cmd+A to select all.
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Cmd+C.
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I am gonna hold down command and
click off to deselect that box.
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And then with the type tool still selected
I'm going to click on this square.
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Make it a container, Cmd+V.
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Command click off, and
zoom out a little bit.
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And here we go.
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We have added text into our wireframe.
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