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Incrementally adjusting type size

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Incrementally adjusting type size

I've saved my progress as Trajan type.ai found inside the 08_type folder and in this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to a grab bag of shortcuts that allow you to incrementally change attributes, such as type size and leading and kerning and tracking. Because after all you rarely know what size and leading and kerning and tracking values you want to use. So I'm going to start by selecting my headline, and I'm going to move it into more or less a right position. So I'm going to drag it by its point; that gives you the most alignment control. I'm going to drag that anchor point at the outset of my point text, so that it snaps into alignment with the top left corner of that margin guide. Then I'm going to double-click on my Black Arrow tool to bring up the Move dialog box and these values are totally wrong. So I'm going to zero them out for a moment. Zero for Horizontal, zero for Vertical. Then I'll Shift+Tab back to the Vertical option and I'm going to change this value to 49 point,…

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