- [Deke] In this movie, I'll show you how
to collect Character and Paragraph Styles
that you can share with other people
as well as use across multiple applications,
and you can do so without ever once
visiting the Character Styles
or Paragraph Styles panel.
Now, we first took a look at this topic
way back in Chapter Eight of the Fundamentals course
when we reviewed how you create and format Type,
but in case you're a little foggy,
a Character Style allows you to save
Character-level formatting attributes,
such as Font and Type size, and so forth,
while a Paragraph Style saves both Paragraph
and Character-level formatting.
And so notice, if I switch over the the Layers panel,
that I have this Layer called Type.
I'll go ahead and turn it on,
at which point you can see that we have a couple
of not very exciting lines of Point Type.
I'm going to go ahead and select the top one right here
and I'm going to apply a font
that's presently available from Typekit.
And so, if you're working along with me,
you want to go up to the Type menu
and choose Add Fonts from Typekit,
and that will go ahead and launch your default web browser,
at which point, you want to search for this font right here,
Viktor, spelled V-I-K-T-O-R, and then Script.
And then all you need to do
is click on this button over here,
which in your case will say Sync,
until the font is synced with your system.
Now, one small note of caution,
I will say that while this font is currently available
for syncing for any Creative Cloud member,
it may not be available in the future,
you just never know.
In which case, try out a different font.
All right, I'm going to go ahead
and switch back to Illustrator,
and with this line of type selected,
I'll go ahead and press that keyboard shortcut
of mash-your-fist + f, that is f for font,
which is Ctrl+Shift+Alt+f on the PC
and Command+Shift+Option+f on the Mac,
and that's going to highlight the Font field
here inside the Character panel,
at which point, I'll just go ahead
and enter V-I-K, that should take care of it,
and then I'll select that font like so.
And notice, I've already dialed in a Type size of 82 pts,
and all these other options are fine set to their defaults.
At which point I'll switch back over
to the Libraries panel
and I'll click on the little plus icon
down here in the bottom left corner,
at which point Illustrator offers to save the Graphic,
that is the actually text object,
as well as the Character and Paragraph Style,
and the color assigned to the Fill.
Now, I don't need that Fill Color
and I definitely don't need a Paragraph Style
because there's nothing going on
where the Paragraph formatting is concerned.
I do want the Character Style
and I might as well save the Graphic,
at which point I will click Add.
Now, it's very important to note
that the artwork is just called Artwork 1
and so, I'll double-click on it
and I'll call it "exciting world of," let's say,
just so that we know what it says,
and you also want to go ahead
and assign a name to your Character Style.
And you can do that by double-clicking on its name,
so notice that the Character Styles
are their own category,
and so, I'll go ahead and double-click on that default name
and I will type in Viktor Script.
Should be good enough.
All right, now I'll go ahead and drop down
to the second line of Point Type right there
and I'll click on it with a Black Arrow tool
and I'll assign the Character Style.
Either by going to the Character Styles panel,
that's totally acceptable,
or you can just click on your new Style here
inside the Libraries panel.
Now, I want you to notice
how all the Character-level formatting attributes
have survived here inside the Character panel,
but we were not able to preserve that Drop Shadow.
And so, if you want to add the Drop Shadow,
you would have to do so manually
by going up to the Effect menu, choosing Stylize,
and then choosing Drop Shadow.
And for what it's worth,
here are the settings I came up with.
I set the color to one of the default swatches,
that happens to have a Hue value of 28 degrees,
we've got a Saturation of 80%,
and a Brightness of 37%.
I've set the Mode to Multiply,
the Opacity value's 100%,
the X Offset is two pts, the Y Offset is eight pts,
and the Blur is zero,
at which point, I'll just go ahead and click OK
because I know those are the settings I'm looking for.
All right, now let's take a look at Paragraph formatting.
I'm going to switch over to this document right here
and notice that we have a couple of paragraphs
that are very messed up.
Not only is the font and the color
and a bunch of other Character formatting attributes out
of keeping with the text around it,
but we've got a ton of paragraph spacing
and the text is centered as well.
So, let's fix this by first pressing the T key
to switch to the Type tool,
and then I'm going to click in this final paragraph right here
in order to position my blinking insertion marker,
that's all you have to do,
and just click in the plus sign in the bottom right corner
of the Libraries panel,
and select both Character
and Paragraph Style this time around.
Once again, we don't need the Fill Color.
At which point, click OK
and you'll notice that you've created two new Styles.
Now you want to press the Esc key
to deactivate the text
and you want to click off of it as well,
and that way, you're not going to mess things up.
All right, now I'll just go ahead
and double-click on the Character Style here
and I'll call this OZ Characters, I guess,
and then I'll double-click on the new Paragraph Styles
and I'll call it OZ Paragraph,
and for some reason, I spelled OZ in all caps.
Don't really care, so I'm going to double-click
in this first blue paragraph
in order to automatically switch over to my Type tool
and then I'll triple-click
in order to select the entire paragraph
and I'll drag on that third click
in order to select the second paragraph as well.
So, you want to make sure both
of the paragraphs are selected,
at which point, if you were to just click
on a Character Style,
you'll see that you would fix all
the Character-level formatting attributes,
but you'd still have a bunch of paragraph spacing
and the text is centered as well,
which is not what I want,
so I'll press Ctrl+z, or Command+z on the Mac,
to undo that change
and that way, I can click on this Paragraph Style here
to demonstrate that that goes ahead and fixes everything,
at which point, I'll once again press the Esc key
in order to switch back to the Black Arrow tool
and I'll click off the text to deselect it.
And that's how you save out Character
and Paragraph Styles that you can share with other people
and use across multiple applications
here inside the Libraries panel.