Adobe Illustrator CS4 - Manual (Page 319)

312 USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Type
Change the color and appearance of characters
You can change the color and appearance of type objects by applying fills, strokes, transparency settings, effects, and
graphic styles. The text remains editable as long as you don’t rasterize it.
1 Do one of the following:
• To change the appearance of specific characters in a type object, select the characters.
• To change the appearance of all characters in a type object, or to apply multiple fills and strokes, select the type
object.
• To fill or stroke a type path, select the type path.
2 Apply fills, strokes, transparency settings, effects, and graphic styles as desired.
When you change the color of a type object, Illustrator overwrites the attributes of individual characters in the type
object.
Use the Control panel to quickly change the color of selected type.
See also
“ About appearance attributes ” on page 349
Character panel overview
You use the Character panel (Window > Type > Character) to apply options for formatting individual characters in
your documents. When type is selected or when the Type tool is active, you can also use options in the Control panel
to format characters.
For a video on working with character and paragraph styles, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0047 .
Character panel
A. Font B. Font Style C. Font Size D. Kerning E. Horizontal Scale F. Baseline Shift G. Leading H. Tracking I. Vertical Scale J. Character
Rotation
K. Language
A. Font B. Font Style C. Font Size D. Align left E. Align center F. Align right
By default, only the most commonly used options are visible in the Character panel. To show all options, choose Show
Options from the options menu. Alternatively, click the double triangle on the panel’s tab to cycle through the display
sizes.
B A
G
H
I
J
K
C
D
E
F
A B C D E F