From the course: Type Tips
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Text wrap effects
- [Instructor] This week's type tip is about an interesting approach we can take with our text wraps. It's not about the basics of working with text wraps but rather a fun and interesting trick. So I have here a wall of text and it is intentionally tightly letter spaced, tightly leaded, and you'll notice there are no paragraph breaks. Rather, I have inserted these pilcrow characters. The reason I'm doing that is I want the text to flow around this image and give the image a shape and it needs to be a solid block of text in order to do that. I'm just going to put this image on my page. Now, as you can see, it's against a white background which makes it an easy candidate for applying a clipping path. I'll come to my clipping path options, detect edges. I can now come to my text wrap panel which I'll find under the window menu and I can wrap around object shape and I can increase my offset, et cetera. But what I want to do is use the penguin just as an interesting graphical shape rather…
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