- In this movie we're gonna customize the type
associated with our logo.
Specifically we're gonna tighten the spacing
between the characters in the first line of type
and notice these little hitches here in the letter N.
I'm gonna show you a couple of different ways
to get rid of them.
All right, I'm gonna start by going up to the View menu
and choosing Type and that's gonna switch us
to a different view that I've created in advance
using the new View command.
So, all you have to do is take advantage of this command.
It's just zoom in where you wanna be,
screw around with the hand tool as well,
choose this command and then that view is saved
along with the file.
So, in my case I named that view Type
and notice just by choosing that command
I can switch to that view.
All right, now if I click on this text
using my black arrow tool
you can see that I select everything
because after all we have ourselves a group
as indicated here on the far left side of the control panel.
So, let's say I wanna edit these
characters independently of each other
all I have to do is double click on
any one of them in order to enter the group isolation mode.
Now, what I'm gonna do is partially marquee the E, R, and S
right there and I'm gonna press the left arrow key twice
in order to move the E closer to the I.
So, what I'm effectively doing is kerning the text
after having converted it to outlines.
Now, I'm gonna marquee these two characters
and notice because I'm working in the isolation mode
I can select the characters independently
inside of the group using the black arrow tool
and now I'll press the left arrow key just once
in order to nudge those characters over exactly one point.
By virtue of the fact, if I press control + K.
or command + K on a Mac,
I have my keyboard increment set to one point
as by default.
All right, I'm gonna go ahead and cancel out of there.
Now, I'm gonna partially marquee the F, R, and O,
and it doesn't matter if you try to marquee the graphic.
You're not gonna select it because
it's not part of the group.
So, you can be pretty sloppy about your marqueeing.
I'll just go ahead and get the F, R, O,
and press the right arrow key this time twice
in order to ker in those characters closer to the end
and then I'll just shift + click on the O
to deselect it and I'll press the right arrow key
just once to ker in the R closer to the O.
And now that I'm just adjusting the character spacing
I'll just the escape key in order to escape
out of that group isolation mode.
All right, now let's take care
of these little notches in the N.
I'm gonna go ahead and zoom way in
and I'm gonna press the A key to switch
to my white arrow tool
and now notice that we've got a couple
of anchor points right there at the bottom
of this little dent.
I'm gonna select the right-hand one
and I've dragged it over to the right as well
just so you can see it
and I'll press the backspace key
or the delete key on the Mac
to get rid of it.
And now, and that goes ahead and gets rid
of that anchor point and it opens up the path outline.
So, I'm gonna zoom in just a little more
by control + spacebar, or command + spacebar clicking.
I'll click off the text to deselect it
and I'll click on that anchor point right there
to select it and I'm gonna drag down
while pressing the shift key to constrain
the angle of my drag to exactly vertical.
And I wanna drag it down til it looks like
I'm more or less aligned with the angle
of this diagonal line.
And now I'll click on its anchor point
and I'll drag it up until it snaps into alignment
with the other one
and now I wanna marquee these two anchor points
and it's easiest to do that by dragging
from the upper left corner down
so you don't end up selecting the text
because you can't drag inside this black area.
And with these two coincident anchor points selected,
by coincidence I mean one is sitting
directly on top of the other,
I wanna make sure that they're precisely aligned, however,
and join them so I'm gonna press the keyboard shortcut
mass your fist J.
That's control + shift + alt + J on the PC,
or command + shift + option + J on a Mac,
and that forces the display of the joined dialogue box.
If you don't see this dialogue box
it means your anchor points aren't
properly aligned to each other
in which case you need to undo and try again
but I got it right.
So, I'm seeing the dialogue box.
I'll select Corner and click OK.
All right, so that's one way to work
but let's say that you have access
to the newest version of Illustrator CC.
Why, then go ahead and scroll and zoom
and do whatever to get to the other notch
in the upper-left corner of the N.
Notice that we have these two anchor points here.
I'll go ahead and grab this guy
and move him away so we can see all the anchor points
and with this point selected I'll press the backspace key
or the delete key on a Mac to get rid of it.
I'll click off the path to deselect it
and I'll click on this anchor point to select it
independently of the others
and then I'll drag it up while pressing the shift key.
Well beyond the diagonal line.
But now let's say I wanna fuse these guys together
in one movement.
What I can do again in the most recent
version of Illustrator CC
you can click and hold on the pencil tool
and select this new tool at the bottom of the fly-out menu,
the Join tool.
And now all you have to do is drag across those segments
and they disappear.
And we end up with a joined intersection.
Without, by the way, in any way shape or form
moving either of these segments.
So, everything remains exactly in place
which is really awesome.
But now I'll go ahead and press control + 0,
or command + 0 on the Mac,
in order to center my zoom.
And that's at least one way
to customize your type.
By adjusting the space between the path outlines
that represent the characters
as well as reshaping a character
using a combination of the white arrow tool
and the new join tool here inside Illustrator CC.