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Small caps and the Glyphs panel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Small caps and the Glyphs panel
Now there is one more OpenType option that we haven't seen so far that's not available inside the OpenType panel. Instead, you get to it from the Character panel and that's small caps and I'll show you how that works. And also introduce you to the Glyps panel, which is one of the most useful panels I think where text is concerned inside Illustrator. I've saved my progress as OpenType changes.ai, and I am going to click on this text up above here, because I want to convert it all to Small Caps. Small Caps as you probably know, means that the real capital letters remain big caps, and then all lowercase letters change to smaller capitals. Now many OpenType fonts include entire small-cap alphabets. The reason they include these, because you might think, well, why would there be special characters for small caps, why not just make little capital letters? Because if you make the capital letter smaller, they also decline in weight, so the big capital letters look massive by comparison, they…
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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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