Create, Edit & Stylize Text | Adobe Illustrator Essentials

Create, Edit & Stylize Text | Adobe Illustrator Essentials

13K views · 2025-02-24 Visual & GraphicTypographyMotion Design
⬇️ Download the workbook to follow along, plus a cheat sheet of keyboard shortcuts: https://www.meganfriesth.com/freebies/illustratorworkbook

Learn the basics of working with text in Adobe Illustrator, including how to create point vs paragraph type, stylize text, type on a path, and customize text as shapes.

👀 Watch the Adobe Illustrator Essentials series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfHurvYEHhXrIYXEZmzGhCVHk47u1ybC

The Illustrator Essentials series is designed to help beginners get started in Adobe Illustrator. While there’s a focus on the tools and techniques used to create illustrations for animation, it’s also applicable to graphic design and static illustrations.

➡️ Check out the visual notes that accompany this video to help you quickly remember how to do something in Illustrator: https://www.meganfriesth.com/illustratoressentials/text

➡️ Practice what you learned here with a real project: https://link.animationexplained.com/aiessentials

In this video:
0:17 - Point Type
1:30 - Paragraph Type
1:59 - Switch Between Point & Paragraph Type
3:15 - Type on a Path
4:09 - Copy & Paste Text
4:36 - Convert Text to Shapes

➡️ Learn more about animating text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRf8x6gyNt8&list=PLGfHurvYEHhVpH84YlGbhaPB4yqKgeNvt

➡️ Text Animation Classes:
Animated Lettering: http://www.meganfriesth.com/class/lettering
Text Animators: https://www.meganfriesth.com/class/textanimators
Animated Typography: http://www.meganfriesth.com/class/typography
3D Animated Lettering: https://www.meganfriesth.com/class/3dlettering

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