The widget has icons for constraining proportions, free transforming with the indicators (rotate, scale, etc.) and restricting the transform to either Perspective or Free Distort. Cursor indicators change when you hover over them, showing whether you can scale, rotate, or otherwise distort the object. It’s now both Cursor- and Touch-enabled, with an onscreen widget that is displayed as soon as the tool is selected. While developing a new method for transforming type, Illustrator CC also transformed the Free Transform tool itself.
The “o” and final “w” above were individually rotated and repositioned using the Touch Type Tool, but remain on the same layer and part of the same word as the “W.” This new feature also works with Touch devices. You used to have to cut and paste characters you wanted to transform onto their own layers, but no more. And most creatively, you now can rotate, scale, and reposition individual characters “inline,” while they remain part of the original word, even if not all characters are transformed. The type doesn’t reflow until you make an edit, like deleting the returns that are automatically added when converting area type to point type in order to maintain its appearance.Īrea type (top) is converted to Point type (middle), and one return is deleted (bottom)Ĭhanging the color of your type is more intuitive now thanks to a change that automatically activates the Fill color when the Type tool is selected and the Stroke proxy in the Tools panel is active, as long as no stroke itself is selected.
No more starting over because the client wants a pithy sentence expanded to a full paragraph. While the list might start out long when you’ve typed only a few letters, you can narrow the search by typing anything else you know about the name, including the font style you want, such as bold or italic.Ī font search on “gar ad” finds each string regardless of the order in which the letters were typed.Ĭonverting area type to point type, and vice versa, is now an on-the fly maneuver with a new widget that’s available whenever you select a type object. The order in which they appear no longer matters. Type any characters found in the name, and a list drops down with all fonts that contain those characters anywhere in their name. Finding the font you want has never been easier. Several aspects of working with type have been revised in Illustrator CC. Users with the newer displays, such as Apple’s Retina displays, get crisp and clear HiDPI views of their artwork, and users with Touch devices aren’t forgotten, either. Illustrator has provided us with a full set of new features and productivity enhancements that include major changes to how you will work with type, create brushes, and prepare your artwork for print or the web. The Creative Suite applications are now Creative Cloud applications, and will no longer be available (beyond CS6) except as part of a Creative Cloud subscription.