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How Singles Typography Crash Course
How Singles Typography Crash Course
lean? Do you wish youd paid more attention in design history class? Follow these
6 lessons from typography guru Denise
Bosler, author of Mastering Type, and
youll be making the grade in no time.
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Organize by client. This approach is similar to organizing by project, but include all the fonts for all the
projects for that client. This works well when theres a
standard set the client always uses.
Prepare. Read
Organize by style.
Activate/Deactivate.
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type tool
Esc
Leading
Baseline shift
Highlight text
Align left, right, center or justify with last line left aligned
cmd + shift + L, R, C or J
cmd + shift + F
cmd + shift + X
cmd+ opt + Q
Create outlines
cmd + shift + O
cmd + opt + I
Select a word
double click
En Dash
opt + - (hyphen)
Em Dash
Bullet
opt + 8
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WEB EXTRA
Dont know your old style from your transitional or your
sans serif from your slab serif? Get a brief primer on
common letter classications from Denise Boslers new
book, Mastering Type.
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