- [Instructor] In this movie,
I'll show you how to switch between
different stylistic sets, in this case,
associated with the multi-color font Trajan Color Concept,
here inside Illustrator CC 2018 or later.
Earlier versions of the program
do not support this feature.
All right, so I'm gonna go ahead
and grab the type tool, which of course,
you can get by pressing the T key.
And I'll select this first letter A,
and as long as my cursor is hovered over the selection,
I'll see this tiny popup panel,
complete with a list of alternate characters.
If I move my cursor off the selection,
then that panel disappears.
But notice that I'm only seeing
five characters in all.
The one I'm looking for isn't here,
so I'll go ahead and click on
the right pointing arrowhead
to bring up the glyphs panel,
set to alternate for current selection.
If it's not set that way for you,
just go ahead and choose this first command,
at which point, I'll see
the turquoise version of the character,
and I'll double click on it
in order to switch out that character, like so.
And then, I'll go ahead and highlight
the double T ligature.
And notice this time, Illustrator offers that ligature
in the tiny popup panel, as well as
up here in the alternates.
And so, I'll just go ahead and double click
on that double T ligature,
and that will replace both of the Ts, like so.
All right, so that's one way to work.
Here's another easier way.
I'll go ahead and press the escape key
to accept that change, and I'll hide the glyphs panel,
which, by the way, does offer a list
of the stylistic sets, with the exception of gold,
because gold is the default setting.
So, while we're seeing stylistic set one, silver,
all the way down to stylistic set 20, solid,
there are really 21 sets, because gold is not pictured.
So, I could switch to turquoise here,
but that is not gonna reformat the text,
that's just going to give me
other characters to choose from.
To reformat the text, what you do is
hide that glyphs panel, and then go up to the window menu,
choose type, and choose open type.
And then, with your text selected,
you wanna move to this bottom right icon,
which reads stylistic sets,
and then go ahead and click on it,
and you will see a list.
And so, I can go ahead and choose turquoise,
if I like, in order to reformat
all the text in turquoise.
That messes up my double N ligature, however,
and so I'll bring it back, just by turning on
standard ligatures, like so.
All right, now this way, you can easily switch
between different sets, just by selecting, for example,
wood, which has some wood grain running through it,
as we can see right here.
But notice what happens if I decide to check out dark gray.
I don't see any change, and that's because
we've got a bunch of styles heaped on top of each other.
So, the first selection is always gonna
override the other ones.
If you wanna be able to see, in our case, dark gray,
then you need to turn off silver,
and then go ahead and turn off wood,
and then go ahead and turn off turquoise,
although that does end up leaving
a couple of turquoise letters right there,
and that's because we set them to turquoise
from the glyphs panel.
If you want them to be dark gray instead,
press the T key to switch back to the type tool,
and then highlight the A, for example,
and switch it back to the very first A, which is gold.
And as you can see, gold always appears
at the bottom of the stack, so it's there,
but it's getting covered up by dark gray.
Then you can select the double T
and change it back to gold as well,
at which point, all the characters
are double gray, like so.
All right, so I'm gonna press the escape key
to switch back to the black arrow tool,
so all of the text is selected.
And then, I'll click on this bottom right icon
here inside the open type panel,
and I will turn off dark gray,
just to make sure it's not
heaped on top of the other colors anymore,
and I'll try out one of the other settings,
such as yellow, which is gonna brighten the letters,
as we're seeing right here.
But I'm really interested in green,
and so I'll start by turning off yellow,
and then I will choose green,
in order to achieve this effect right here.
And again, I've lost not only my double N ligature,
but also the double T, and so I'll just go ahead
and click on this bottom left icon, standard ligatures,
in order to bring them back.
All right, now let's say I wanna share this document
with somebody who's using
an older version of Illustrator.
In that case, I need to convert my text to outlines.
And of course, when converting to
vector-based path outlines,
you can have as many different
fills and strokes as you like.
So notice, if I go up to the type menu
and choose create outlines,
that I maintain the effect in all of its glory.
And this also gives you a chance to figure out
how these effects are put together.
And so, notice the word group
on the far left side of the control panel.
I wanna ungroup these letters,
so I'll go up to the object menu and choose
the ungroup command.
That still leaves a bunch of groups,
but at least one letter at a time is grouped
instead of all the letters.
And so, I'll just go ahead and
click off any letter to deselect it,
then I'll click on the A, for example,
and double click on it in order to enter
the group isolation mode,
and then I'll just go ahead and zoom in here,
and I'll grab this path outline,
and I'll drag it over, so that you can see
the green letter in the background.
You can also drag this guy up,
and this guy over, and so forth.
There's another guy right here
who's responsible for this little bit of shading,
and that's actually a pretty big path,
but it's filled with this slight gradient
at this location here.
Now, some of the effects are more complicated than this,
but they all depend on multiple path outlines
to express each and every letter.
All right, I don't really want this guy torn apart,
so I'll just press control Z or command Z on the Mac
a bunch of times in order to restore the letter A,
and then you can just press control Z again,
command Z on the Mac, in order to escape out of
the group isolation mode.
And now I'll just go ahead and
click off the letters to deselect them,
and I'll press control zero or command zero on the Mac
to center my zoom.
And that's how you switch between
different stylistic sets, in this case,
associated with the multicolor font Trajan Color Concept,
here inside Illustrator CC 2018 and moving forward.