Among the most powerful aspects of Adobe Illustrator are its type features. You can add a single line of type to your artwork, create columns and rows of text, flow text into a shape or along a path, and work with letterforms as graphic objects. The fonts you choose and the settings you select in Illustrator for leading, kerning, and spacing before and after paragraphs are examples of decisions you can make about the appearance of the text in your artwork.

• Creating and importing type
• Working with area type
• Working with type on a path
• Scaling and rotating type
• Spelling and language dictionaries
• Fonts
• Formatting type
• Line and character spacing
• Special characters
• Formatting paragraphs
• Hyphenation and line breaks
• Tabs
• Character and paragraph styles
• Exporting text
• Formatting Asian characters
• Creating composite fonts
• Updating text from Illustrator 10