- [Instructor] Working with stacked type
lets you manipulate your logo into a more vertical shape.
Here are some examples of the kind
of thing I'm talking about.
Here are some tips for working
with stacked and vertical type.
Start out with your vertical type tool.
I'll switch back to my selection tool
and then let's increase the size of this dramatically.
Maybe not quite so dramatically as that.
I'll use the keyboard shortcut Command + Shift + <,
just to dial in the right size there.
Now you can see that the letters are not really aligning
on top of each other in quite the way
that we might want them to,
the L seems a lot narrower than the O.
So for this reason when you're using vertical type
you might want to consider using a monospaced typeface
where all of the letters are the same width
or close to being the same width.
In addition, if you want to adjust the spacing
between the letters with horizontal type
of course that would be the leading
but with vertical type it is the tracking.
I'll press Command or Command + T
to go to the character panel
and to bring these letters closer
together I'll reduce the tracking.
In my second example, I'm using stacked type
but it's not vertical type.
It's horizontally reading type just broken
into very small chunks with line breaks.
Once again I'm using a monospaced typeface.
I'll press return to stack the type.
Now the issue here is that
that might be confusing to read and for
that reason we can differentiate
the two different syllables with color
and there's no longer any confusion.
And to finish the whole thing let's put
an enclosing rectangle around it which
is going to emphasize the vertical shape.
I'll press Shift + X to toggle my fill
and stroke properties.
Increase the weight of that
and then just adjust the position
of that to get it visually centered around the type.
So there are some suggestions
for working with stacked and vertical type.