Hey everyone. Hey, in this video we're gonna look at something called  the touch type tool. What does it do? It takes type, okay, and remains editable,  but we get to kind of mess around  with it at a bit of creative flare. And the cool thing about it is somehow it's still  editable and typeable. Cool, huh?

Alright, let's jump in  and transform boring old text into custom looking stuff  that remains editable. Jump in. Alright, if you wanna play along,  there's a file called touch type tool. Open that one up. Okay. You might have to sync some fonts.

Uh, you don't have to. You can pick your own fonts. Uh, if you do wanna go  and find them though, this one's called Marker Aid  and this one here is called uh, filmer type Honey. Filmer type is a company that makes fonts  and they make various different ones. This one happens to be called Honey. Okay?

So this effect works, I dunno, I like it with these kind  of hand drawn, um, uh, fonts just  to add a bit of character to them. Um, what's cool about them is that they are non-destructive. So we can move 'em around without outlining them. Let's just do it Dan. Uh, so let's grab the touch type tool. It is underneath you.

Click and hold down the type tool. It's right at the bottom here. You pick  on a letter you wanna mess with. Okay, I'm gonna click on this m just click on that one. Okay. And you've got a bunch of different dots.

Um, the four corners, right? So, uh, the main ones are, let's do the top right. This one here does the size. Okay, we can make it bigger or smaller. Okay? I'm gonna make mine a bit smaller.

Okay? You've got the top left, which is the height. I'm gonna undo that. You've got the  bottom right, which is the width. Okay? You can squish the type.

It's kind of criminal to mess with fonts like that,  but sometimes you just need  to this bottom left one is the movement. So I can just kind of move it around. Can you see? And what's really cool about it is,  well actually the last one, I'm gonna do that one. And the last one is this.at the top. This does the rotation.

Okay? And here you can actually just drag it in the middle. You don't have to use that bottom left hand dot. What's really cool about it though is if I go back  to my type tool, okay, I can highlight this M  and say actually this needs to be a D for whatever reason. Can you see it's editable type? Whereas in the past you might have done it.

I know I've used to do it before the touch type tool. I would outline the text, turn it into a shape,  then start messing with it. And I was never, you know,  I can never go and change it afterwards. I love this. Now it does run into a few problems. Let's look at this one here.

We end up with this big gap, okay,  with some of the fonts and you wanna move it around. So you might leave it, it's fine,  but let's grab the type tool. Let's get our cursor, just get it flashing. So I just put it in there. Can you see my giant thin  flashing, um, cursor. Now what I do is you can use the koning over here.

Okay, so koning is minus 75. That works. What I tend to do though is uh, use the shortcut. So still with the flashing hold on the option Ke mac,  alt Kiana pc and just use the left and right arrows. You can kind of like just jostle it around. I find that's, uh, the best way of doing it.

It's still doing the exact same thing. Okay? Uh, it's still doing the Kooning,  it's just doing it in a kind of more  of a tactile visual way. I'm gonna go through and jumble mine up in a second,  but I guess I wanna show you a few other little things. Now, let's say I grab the touch type tool again, okay? And I go, I'm gonna mess with the t this thing at the bottom  appears and all of these, these are the gly alternatives.

They're cool. Okay? 'cause this font has a bunch  of different versions of it, depending on what I wanna do. Um, you can turn it off, you can go to your preferences. So on a Mac it's under settings, okay? Under Adobe Illustrator  and down to type on a pc, it's under edit settings type.

Okay? And you can go to, uh, where is it called? Show Character alternatives. You turn it on and it kind of cleans it up. It turns it off forever though, so I, I really like it. So I'm gonna leave mine back on.

Okay? Okay. And it's back kind of a pain in the butt. You can kind of work around it though. I do. Up to you.

Another useful thing when you are willing, well this is kind  of outside of, um, the uh, type tool,  but I wanted to show you, um,  let's have a look at this one here. Hand-drawn font. Once you do mess around with one,  let me do a kind of a speedy jump cut for this. So I just kinda like overlay these  so they kinda look like they're coming outta the same dot  Anyway, what's really cool is one  of the techniques we've already learned is blending mode. So if I zoom in in this, can you see it's quite,  it's on a um, kind of an interesting paper background  with the text selected. Just with the black arrow, you can go to your opacity  and look at the blending modes  and have a look at the different options.

Darken, does nothing multiply? Can you see what it's doing? It's showing the color through it just  to kind of have a cool effect. I dunno, I find it interesting when you're doing  especially hand drawn fonts. Okay, lightning doesn't work and just work your way through  and see what might work in terms of this. Okay, I'm gonna go to probably just multiply,  kinda shows enough of it through.

It's quite a thin font so you don't really see it,  but it feels a lot more connected to the page than say, um,  my name down here where it is just a solid color. Anyway, uh, I'm gonna go through now  and start messing around with the fonts  and you'll see those in the,  you would've seen them in the intro,  but yeah, the touch type tool. Great for, uh, hand-drawn fonts. Great for ransom notes. Okay? Uh, give me all your money or the laptop gets it,  or put all your dishes in the dishwasher.

A company office favorite. Alright, that's it. I'll see you in the next video.