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Character formatting options

Character formatting options - Illustrator Tutorial

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Character formatting options

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Now let's talk about character formatting options. I'm just going to make some space and I will work with this text frame here so you can access these formatting options from the properties panel under the character category and there's actually more options here in case you want to see them but you can also open these up in a separate panel just go to the window menu and from type choose character. So once you have that open you will see these options again it's pretty much the same thing here and for instance we can change the leading. So leading controls the space between the lines and we can make this text frame bigger so make sure it fits inside it when I do this and by the way we can select all the text and use alt or option up and down arrows as well to change the leading or space between the lines we can also use alt or option right and left arrows to increase or decrease the tracking and that's the value that you see under the leading so that's tracking increase and decrease…

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