Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Illustrator Typography shortcuts

_____Why? Because if you are intuitively working with the tools rather than dialogs, you can access more of your creative brain.

____What? Shortcuts

cmd-Shift-< or cmd-shift>  shrinks or grows your font by one point. Works for groups of fonts too.

alt arrow kerns by amount set in preferences/type
alt arrow up/down is leading
select your text and alt left and right for tracking

these three are sometimes referred to as the holy trinity of typography

Is there a shortcut for changing font?

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