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Ligatures, swashes, ordinals, and fractions - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Ligatures, swashes, ordinals, and fractions
In this exercise, we are going to discuss a few specialty type items specifically ligatures, swatches, ordinals and fractions in the context of the OpenType panel. I've saved my progress as Prospective type.ai and I am going to go ahead and select that yellow type that we went ahead and formatted in the previous exercise. Notice that it's not at the angle that it appears to be so bear that in mind. Then having done that, notice that we've got that big problem over here in the word Difficulty. So we have a big gap between the f and the i and that is the automatic kerning that's associated with this font right now. So I can't figure out why it's this bad but what needs to happen is those letters need to be replaced with a ligature. A ligature is a single character that represents multiple letters for example there is a ligature for fi in a row, there is a ligature for fl, there is another ligature in this font for ffi and several other combinations as well. Now, assuming that you're…
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Dynamic effects and OpenType1m 12s
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Applying a dynamic effect to type5m 43s
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Creating a basic bevel effect4m 12s
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Building up a multi-stroke effect4m 49s
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Best practices for 3D type6m 34s
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Applying a "path wiggler" to type6m 14s
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Drop shadows and Raster Effects settings4m 52s
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Duplicating attributes and effects7m 8s
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Editing type with dynamic effects7m 27s
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Ligatures, swashes, ordinals, and fractions5m 45s
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Small caps and the Glyphs panel4m 25s
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Warping text and increasing resolution6m 9s
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