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Learn to use character and paragraph styles so you can make global type changes easily across the entire document.
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First, let's add in our links.
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We know that our navigation area is sort of is designated as here.
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We also have this area here.
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I'm gonna delete this for now, because I don't think I want a darker
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colored bar after all, but I do want all of this real estate for my links.
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So there's plenty of room for someone with a touchscreen to allow that to work,
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so I will start typing here.
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And I do have the name, so
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it's events and about.
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And vendors.
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Put about five spaces in between each word for now.
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Just for it to be even.
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And I'm gonna keep with my trend of using Lato as the font.
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And generally, you would probably have a different font in your wire
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frame as you would in the finished design that almost always would happen.
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But for me, I ended up really liking this one font, so I happened to stick with it.
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I got lucky.
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I do want to center this up, so make sure it's aligned to artboard, and great.
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Okay, there we go.
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It's nice and centered.
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I would like to change this color,
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so rather than it being black, I think I would rather it be red.
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I'm going to come back to that.
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Let's go ahead and take this text, copy.
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And then we're gonna go to the correct layer in our Layers bar,
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make sure that's selected.
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I will paste my links here.
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I want it to line up.
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This is our 50-pixel padding here, so I want that to line up.
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Okay, I'll delete our reference.
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Okay, that's not centered.
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Think it'd be nice for it to sort of be centered with this pencil.
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So, I'm gonna select eb in the header, and the header one more time is my target.
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And do vertical distribute.
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Great.
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And this could also Grooves this way a little bit more.
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Then I get the 12 more breathing room.
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Okay, much nicer.
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Illustrator allows us to save character on paragraph attributes so
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we can quickly format text.
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This helps for making changes after you've finished your design because you can
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update and change all instances of that style within the document and make changes
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globally rather than having to click on each individual text box and change it.
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It's gonna to change all of them that have a designation.
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So let's go ahead and go to Window > Type > Character Styles.
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And when you pull up this window we'll have Character Styles and
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Paragraph Styles.
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I'm gonna drag it down like this.
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Tighter swatches for now.
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Make a little room.
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Okay.
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Looks like I was making this earlier, so I'll delete that.
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Yes.
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If you just open this and you haven't done anything,
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it should just say Normal Character Style and Normal Paragraph Style, and
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that's preset in Illustrator.
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It's probably Myriad Pro, and you don't wanna assign that to anything here.
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So, we're gonna start using the character styles.
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And a character style is a collection of character formatting attributes such as
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font, size, color, and it's going to save all those different attributes,
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and we can change the options, which I'll show you how to do.
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So, let's select our links.
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This is going to be.
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Well, we'll call it Links.
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And to create a new paragraph style, oops we want a new character style,
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Okay.
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And to create a new character style we can go right here and
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Create New Style, to change the name we just double-click here.
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We'll call it Links.
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Click off.
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And then if I double-click on it, it's going to give me the information.
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So the font type, Lato, Regular, the Size.
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It also has other attributes, such as Character Color.
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I'll hit OK.
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And I want to assign this text here also,
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I wanna give it the same designation and character style as Links.
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So what will happen now is when I change,
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so when I double click in here and change these settings,
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it's going to change everything with that designation of links.
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So as I was saying earlier, I really wanted this to be red.
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And trying that out and that looks great and
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I'm able to make that change globally to both of them at once.
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I don't have to do it individually.
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So you can see what a huge time saver this would be.
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In terms of size if I wanted to do sizing.
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Which I don't at this point, so I'm gonna take it back.
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I think I'm gonna make it 24.
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Hit OK.
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Yeah, it's looking nice.
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Center this again.
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And put this over here.
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We can do the same thing for headings.
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So, just as an example, I'm gonna select this.
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And a really great trick you can use is, if you option+click
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when you click new style, it automatically brings up this option box,
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and then you can say Heading 2.
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Or actually let's shorten it to H2.
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Hit OK.
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Let´s give the use the same designation.
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So I'll select them and hit this.
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And I wanna change all of these right now to white, so
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I´m gonna double click Character Color.
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White.
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OK.
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It looks like for some reason this one didn't carry over, so
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I'll select it, and I'll select this.
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And you'll see when that happens a plus sign appears, and
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it's telling me that this setting is different than the H2 style.
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And so it's asking me, do you really wanna convert it over?
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And I do.
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And the way you do that is you Shift+click on it.
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It makes this like the others.
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So you can see this is really cool, really helpful.
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