How to bold text in illustrator. Select the type tool and click the artboard. You do have to deal with two copies of the text now but. There doesnt 1843478.
Text that doesnt fit in the text object is called overset text and is indicated by a red plus in the lower right corner of the frame. Begin with a new document. Text will no longer be editable live type after this.
If you are a true newbie to illustrator we created the text by using the type tool or t on the keyboard then clicking on the canvas and typing our text. Now from here youd think there would be an easier option like a button saying underline text or something similar but what we need to actually do is once the text is selected. Make a few basic edits.
If you want to increase text or heading thickness and you dont have bold font family in your. This adds some placeholder. Work on a copy if you need to have text editable for later use choose object expand appearance from the menu if available choose object expand from the menu if available click the merge or unite buttons on the pathfinder panel not the effect menu.
Reposition the text object with the selection tool. Reshape your letterforms. For some reason the typical keyboard shortcut for bold text ctrlshiftb seems to be assigned in illustrator cs3 to showhide bounding box.
Take text to the next level add some text. All communitythis categorythis boardknowledge baseuserscancel. Duplicate text apply heavier stroke to create outline color.
Drag a corner of the text object to scale the text object and wrap the text within.
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