If you want to create professional-quality type


    Illustrator provides powerful, flexible features for creating and modifying type. With the new typographic controls in this version of Illustrator, you be able to set type like a pro:

    • Add type anywhere in your artwork--horizontally, vertically, along paths, inside shapes, around shapes, in rows and in columns. If you can imagine it, Illustrator can do it. (See Creating type.)
    • Use the OpenType and Glyphs palettes to gain access to special characters in OpenType font, including ligatures, fractions, swash characters, titling characters, ordinals, and ornaments. Illustrator comes with a variety of OpenType® fonts so you can use these features in your work right away. (See Applying OpenType features to characters.)
    • Use the Character and Paragraph palettes to keep typographic controls at your fingertips. These palettes provide a host of formatting options--from font, size, leading, kerning, and tracking to alignment, justification, and indentation. (See Formatting characters and Formatting paragraphs.)
    • Once your type is formatted exactly as desired, save the settings in a character or paragraph style. Styles help you format type quickly and maintain high standards by ensuring that all of the text in a design is consistent. (See Using character and paragraph styles.)
    • Use the Adobe Every-line Composer to automatically typeset blocks of text. The Every-line Composer produces elegant line breaks with minimal hyphenation, consistent word and letter spacing, and no distracting rivers of white space flowing from line to line. (See Working with composition.)
    • Use editing features--including spell-checking, find and replace, and smart punctuation--to fine-tune your text. Illustrator comes with dictionaries for twenty-nine different languages so you can use these features regardless of which language the text is in. (See Editing text.)
    • If your artwork includes Japanese text, turn on the Show Asian Options preference. Illustrator includes features for tsume, tate-chu-yoko, warichuu, mojikumi, kinsoku shori and composite fonts. (See Working with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean type.)