- [Instructor] In this movie we'll take a look
at how you can use a full color font,
such as Trajan Color Concept as we're seeing here,
inside Illustrator CC 2018 and later.
All right, I'll go ahead and switch over to this document,
which contains a photograph
from the Dreamstime image library,
about which you can learn more
and get some great deals at dreamstime.com/deke.php.
All right, I'm gonna go ahead
and turn off that dreamstime layer
and notice that the photograph appears on the attic layer
and below it we have a purple radial gradient.
I wanna blend those two layers together,
so I'll go ahead and turn the attic layer back on
and target it by clicking on its circular,
so called meatball in the right hand column
of the Layers panel.
And then I'll go up to the control panel,
click on the word Opacity,
and change the blend mode to Multiply.
And next, I'll lock down the attic layer
by clicking in the second column
and then I'll turn on the text layer
and I will click on the text
with my black arrow tool to select it.
And now notice that we can see the font
up here in the control panel.
At which point just go ahead and select that font.
And notice that we're working with lowercase characters,
but as soon as I enter the word Trajan
and I hover over, for example, Trajan Pro
or Trajan Pro Bold, both of which have been around
for a very long time now,
that the letters switch to capitals
and that's because Trajan offers no lowercase character.
However, I'm gonna switch to Trajan Color,
which is installed directly inside Illustrator CC 2018
and presumably later as well.
All right, so I'll go ahead and choose that font
and notice that it is a full color font
that looks as if it's been chiseled.
All right, now notice the double T and the double N here.
We can swap those out for ligatures
by going up to the Window menu
and then scrolling down a little bit,
so that I can see the Type command,
and then I'll choose Open Type.
And notice this first icon in the bottom left corner,
Standard Ligatures.
If you click on it then Illustrator will fuse the double T
and the double N into single ligature characters,
as we're seeing right here.
All right, now to me the letters
look like they're spaced apart too far,
so I'm gonna go ahead and click on the Character tab
in order to bring up the Character panel,
and then I will change this kerning option right here
from Auto by clicking the down pointing arrowhead
to Optical.
And that'll go ahead and squeeze the characters together
just a little bit more.
And then I'll select this tracking value
and I'll set it to negative 60
in order to produce this effect here.
And then I'll go ahead and hide that panel.
All right, now Trajan Color Concept
offers a bunch of different color variations,
which we'll explore in the very next movie,
but I want you to see that it's a very special font
in that you can't change its color in the conventional way.
So notice that the fill color
assigned to my type is still white.
If I were to change it to black or red
nothing whatsoever is gonna happen.
The same goes if I were to select, let's say,
a bright red stroke,
and then increase the line weight to 16 points
or something lackey like that,
nothing whatsoever is going to happen.
This is even true if you pile a stroke on top of the text.
So let's say I go up to the Window menu
and choose the Appearance command,
and then I click on the Type item.
So notice if I double-click on Characters
that's gonna go ahead and select the text
and show me that I have a red fill and a red stroke,
even though they're not appearing.
So what I'm gonna do instead
is click on the word Type right there
so that it's active,
and then I'll drop down to the Add New Fill icon
and click on it,
and I'll change it, let's say,
to this bright shade of blue right here,
and nothing happens.
Even though the fill is sitting on top of the Characters,
which would normally override things.
So in other words, if this were a standard font
it would now appear blue,
but instead we do not see that fill attribute.
And that's because color fonts are treated differently
than standard fonts here inside Illustrator.
Now this goes for effects, such as drop shadows as well.
So notice if I go up to the Effect menu,
choose Stylize, and then choose Drop Shadow,
and I'm gonna set the Color not to red,
but rather to black, like so,
and then I'll click OK.
Notice the Opacity is set to 100%.
The X Offset is 0 points,
so that the shadow's going straight down
thanks to this Y Offset value of 10 points.
And then we've got a Blur of 5 points.
At which point I'll click OK
in order to apply that shadow.
And in my case I've assigned the shadow to the fill.
If you don't like that you can drag it down, like so,
to below the word Characters,
so that it's applied to the Type,
as apposed to these attributes right here.
And just to streamline things a little bit
I'm gonna click on the Stroke and Shift + click on the Fill
and then drop down to the trash icon
in the bottom right hand corner of the Appearance panel
and click on it to get rid of them.
So as you can see here, we just have a Drop Shadow.
But notice if I were to turn off the attic and back layers,
so that we're seeing a white background
the text is not casting a black shadow,
it's casting a shadow that actually mimics the color
of the characters themselves.
So over here on the I you can see how it changes
from brown over on the right hand side
to yellow on the left hand side.
And so it's basically duplicating the characters,
offsetting them down 10 pixels,
and blurring them to the tune of five pixels,
which is what we asked when we applied
the drop shadow in the first place.
But I want you to see,
if I switch back to the Appearance panel
and click on the word Drop Shadow to edit it
we do have a Color that's set to black.
But if I were to turn on the Preview checkbox
so we can see what we're doing,
click on this color swatch,
and change it to anything, such as red,
just for the sake of demonstration,
and click OK it's not going to make any difference.
So when working with color fonts inside Illustrator
the color assigned to the Drop Shadow doesn't matter,
you're always going to be assigning
the color of the text itself.
At which point I'll just go ahead and click OK
to accept that change.
And now I'll press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on the Mac
to center my zoom.
And I'll go ahead and return to the Layers panel
and turn on the attic and the back layers,
so that we can see the final effect.
And that's how you work with full color fonts,
such as Trajan Color Concept,
here inside Illustrator CC 2018,
and I'm hoping, well into the future.