Learn how to add final text elements to your design efficiently and with precision. This tutorial explains how to create, resize, edit, and stylize text frames, allowing you to enhance your design with professional-looking textual elements.
Key Insights
- The font used for the text can be changed to create a different look and feel for different parts of the design. For instance, in this instance, Chivo Black and Chivo Light Italic were used in different parts of the design.
- The size of the text can be easily adjusted; in this case, the size was increased to 14 points for some elements and decreased to 12 points for others. This technique allows for better visual hierarchy and readability.
- To create a uniform look across multiple elements, a text frame can be copied and moved into other areas in the design, as was done with the "refreshments provided by" text in the rectangle elements.
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In this video we're going to be adding our final text elements. So let's hit W on the keyboard and let's utilize our type tool to create type between the two margins.
From here we'll resize our type frame. Let's drag it down so it's in line with our guide and from here if we double click we can add our text. For our text we're going to be adding the text refreshments provided by and feel free to make up your own refreshment companies.
From here now let's edit our text. We'll select it and change the font to chivo and from here let's select chivo black. We'll then center our paragraph and for the bottom here let's select this text and rather than being black we're going to change it from black to light italic.
We'll also increase the size of the font of all of the text hitting CTRL A to select all the text and let's move it up to 14 points. If we hit CTRL shift a we can see what this looks like. As a final change let's now center it within the text frame.
We'll utilize our selection tool and select the text frame and we'll go to align center. If we hit w on the keyboard we can see what this now looks like. Next let's select this entire text frame and holding ALT let's copy it and move it into the rectangle below.
We'll do this one more time again holding ALT and dragging into our last rectangle. This time double clicking and hitting CTRL A to change our fill to paper. We'll utilize our selection tool then and let's work on this text right below the refreshments.
For the top line let's maintain this chivo black font and we'll simply type rsvp in all caps and hit ENTER and for the text right below let's add some description. We'll type please rsvp by may 5th with the number of individuals in your party. We'll change the th to have superscript and let's decrease the font of this text right below.
We'll decrease it back down to 12 points and rather than light italic let's simply move it to regular. We'll then see what this looks like hitting w on the keyboard and we also need to remove the hyphen here. We'll click on the text frame and going into our paragraph we'll scroll down and uncheck hyphenate.
Finally we'll work on this bottom text here and the first thing we want to do is make sure that it's in line with the bottom of the margin. In addition we also want to center it to the bottom of our text frame. From here let's triple click the top text and we're going to type in rsvp via phone or email and hit ENTER.
Next below rsvp via phone or email we're going to actually delete all of this text utilizing backspace and removing the line and let's next utilize the selection tool dragging it up so it's at the top and in the center. Because we have two different elements here both the phone number and the email we're going to create two separate text elements. To do this we'll utilize our type tool and let's simply drag a box on the left hand side and we'll type our first text rsvp at domus dot url.
We'll then hit CTRL A and let's copy the text from another styling. We'll utilize our eyedropper tool and let's just click this text right here of the time. We now have chivo light italic.
Let's drop it down to 10 points and rather than being black text let's double click our fill and we'll make it white and click ok. We also want to align our text on the bottom of the text frame so we'll utilize the selection tool and go to align bottom. From here we can simply drag it to the right and drop it right within the margin.
Holding ALT now we're going to drag to the right hand side and drop the same text frame on the right hand side. We'll then triple click the text to edit it and let's add our phone number. The only change we need to make now is we need to right align it so we'll triple click and for our paragraph within our properties panel we'll write a line.
We'll then hit CTRL shift 8 to deselect and let's hit w to view our work. In this case the email and phone number feel a little too far away so let's utilize our selection tool and selecting the rsvp we'll hold shift and use the right arrow key and the up arrow and on the right hand side we'll do the same thing holding shift and hitting left and up and this feels a little more appropriate. If we zoom out now we can see what the back of our card looks like.
Feel free to make any changes that you'd prefer. In this case I'm going to drag the refreshments provided by up just a bit and we've now finished both page one and two or the front and back of our card. Well done! Let's hit CTRL S on the keyboard to save our work and in the next video we'll begin a new project.
See you there!