From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Tracking and kerning border elements - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Tracking and kerning border elements
I've saved my progress as Ornaments on a path.ai, found inside the 08_type folder. Notice that we've assigned the shell and the sun to this path outline. In this exercise, we're going to replicate these two ornaments over and over again and then we're going to adjust the tracking and kerning of the various ornaments, so they exactly fit the path outline. So I'll switch to the Type tool by pressing the T key and then I will select these two characters by dragging over them. I'll go up to the Edit menu and choose the Copy command or press Ctrl+C, Command+C on the Mac. Then I'll press the Right Arrow key in order to move the blinking insertion marker to after the sun character. And I'm going to either go up to the Edit menu and choose the Paste command or press Ctrl+V, Command+V on the Mac, a total of 11 times in a row. So might as well do that from the keyboard choosing the command that many times in a row would be a colossal pain in the neck. So I'm going to go ahead and zoom out here…
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Next-generation text1m 19s
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Making a margin guide5m 7s
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Offsetting flush-left text4m 47s
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Moving and duplicating guides6m 23s
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Placing and threading text6m 18s
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Selecting words and lines of text6m 35s
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Working with point text7m 10s
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Tips for previewing and assigning fonts4m 7s
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Incrementally adjusting type size5m 49s
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Leading a paragraph indent5m 6s
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Pair kerning and tracking7m 2s
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Laying down base formatting attributes4m 59s
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Hanging indent and paragraph spacing3m 52s
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Creating a paragraph style5m 8s
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Redefining paragraph styles6m 42s
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Using the Glyphs panel6m 41s
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Spell-checking text4m 24s
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The stuff Check Spelling doesn't catch3m 24s
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Copying and applying a graphic style4m 42s
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Selecting through text objects6m 59s
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Offset Path and Scribble effects5m 45s
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Updating a graphic style5m 43s
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Creating type on a path7m 26s
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Attaching type to a closed path6m 5s
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Adjusting baseline shift4m 18s
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Tracking and kerning border elements8m 21s
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Filling and duplicating a border3m 28s
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