962 New ways to scale type in Illustrator

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … Now for the last century or more, … you've been able to scale type by setting its point size. … Such as, set that type in nine point Helvetica … or big, like 24 point Helvetica, … or if you really hate your readers, five point Helvetica. … Only, what does that even mean? … Here's some type set in Helvetica New … scaled to a size of 200 points, … which is actually 142.8 points tall … or 182.4 points if you include the descenders, … or 50.4 and 64.3 millimeters, respectively, … if that's your thing. … But now, Illustrator includes what Adobe calls … font height options, … which allow you to precisely scale texts by cap height, … x-Height, or ICF if you're working with CJK. … And if you say 200 points, guess what? … It's 200 point. … Here, let me show you exactly how it works. … All right, so this is what I want … with these characters of type … exactly matching the rectangles in the background … and this is what I got. …