Menu Project
Menu Project Overview
Mistakes:
- None reported
Content:
- Look at overview in Canvas
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Working with Text:
- FYI these next 5 videos were copied from Software Help section of my website https://profsteveg.wordpress.com/working-with-text/
Working with Text #1
- Creating Point Text
- Editing Point Text
- Creating Area Text
- Editing Area Text
- Verifying that has not been stretched (Text Panel)
- Area Type Options
- Size of the Text Area
- Inserting columns
- Creating Area Text from a circle or other shape
Working with Text #2
- Pasting text in Illustrator
- Placing text in Illustrator
- Applying basic character setting (Character Panel)
- Applying basic paragraph settings (Paragraph Panel)
Working with Text #3
- Applying basic paragraph settings (Paragraph Panel)(continued)
- Showing invisible characters
- Text Threads
Working with Text #4
- Text Threads (continued)
- Setting text along an open path
- Setting text along a closed path
Working with Text #5
- Good shortcuts
- Converting text into paths (Create Outlines)
- Avoiding Typographic Clichés
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Setting Type for a Menu #1
Mistakes:
- None reported
Content:
- Watch the other required videos first
- 0:51 Do not use Point Text for a menu, use Area Text
- Past your text in to Ai
- 2:39 Get rid of all hard returns because we will use Leading to create our spacing
- 3:50 Make a good guess at the size and leading of you menu items size
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Setting Type for a Menu #2
Mistakes:
- None reported
Content:
- What size to set text (body copy) (Demo)
- 7:30 Set all the descriptions to that size
- 9:16 Main categories
- 10:12 Setting Tabs in Ai (for the prices)
- Select the Area Text, Windows>Type>Tab
- Magnet icon re-attaches the Tab panel
- Click “Left Justified Tab” then click where you want the TabThen Tab your item in place
- 13:25 To move all Tabbed items
- Select all text
- Then drag the Tab
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Setting Type for a Menu #3
Mistakes:
- None reported
Content:
- Creating a system of consistent Leading
- 7:53 Adjusting the length of the text, avoiding Widows, and soft returns
- 10:25 Show hidden character
- 11:43 Make notes about your system
- 14:14 Resizing Area Text and Threading
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