Items Menu for Game

Created a game menu yesterday in Illustrator. All vectors. Used Illustrator's 3D effects feature to get most of these shapes. Learned a lot about using every panel, organizing selections, and exporting efficient .jpegs when uniting paths with pathfinder.

Problems (11/09/2019)

Increasing and Decreasing Concentric and Radial Dividers on the Polar Grid Tool

-I've been learning how to integrate this in my work flow but, I can seem to figure out how to increase and decrease dividers upon after scaling the polar grid. A tutorial showed me that the arrow keys were suppose to increase and decrease them but, It didn't work on my computer.


Can't Find Swatches in Swatches Panel

-Select all swatches from a folder by clicking the first and shift+clicking the last swatch. On the drop down menu on the right of the panel select "Add to Swatches". The Swatches are now added to your swatches panel.


Transforming (scale, rotate, etc.) the Graph

-Object > Ungroup
-Objects can now be transformed in groups.
-Data no longer editable

-Another option is to use the scale tool to transform the entire graph while still retaining the option to edit it's data.

Select > Same > Fill Color

-Fills all shapes with color that are similar

i.e. graph bars and circle. direct select shape with color and then, follow through with these steps.

Show/Hide Bounding Box

CTRL+SHIFT+B

UI Icons - Study Guide

Location:
C:\Users\Will.000\Desktop\Illustrator - Tutorials\UI Icons - Study



Isolate Selected Object

Draw Normal

Draw Behind

Draw Inside

What are contextual alternates?

Contextual alternates are alternate characters included in some script typefaces to provide better joining behavior. For example, when using Caflisch Script Pro with contextual alternates enabled, the letter pair “bl” in the word “bloom” is joined so that it looks more like handwriting.


Image Source:
https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates

Source:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/arabic-hebrew.html

What are Ligatures?

Ligatures are typographic replacement characters for certain letter pairs. Most fonts include ligatures for standard letter pairs such as fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl.


Image Source:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/arabic-hebrew.html




Image Source:
https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates

"Ligatures and contextual alternates basically serve the same purpose: they offer solutions for problematic or unwieldy glyph sequences. Although their name implies that they connect two or more glyphs, some ligatures actually solve problems by shortening letter parts, exactly like some contextual alternates do. So why are they two distinct features? The fundamental difference between them is that ligatures replace two or more glyphs with one combined glyph, while contextual alternates only change the appearance of one glyph at a time. A ligature typically resolves one single awkward glyph combination; a contextual alternate can offer solutions for many different graceless scenarios."


*contextual alternates only change two or more glyphs at a time.

*ligatures replace two or more glyphs with one combined glyph


What is a glyph?

A Glyph is a stylic set that can be applied to a group of characters.

SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/special-characters.html

Verticle Area Type Tool

SOURCE:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YtYntPbREC8/mqdefault.jpg

Illustrator - 1,000 artboards

Currently 100 but will soon allow 1,000 artboards.

SOURCE:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/adobe-illustrator-artboards-limit-1000/

Roman Hanging Punctuation

Roman hanging punctuation will give your blocks of text a clean appearance. By turning on the Roman hanging option in Illustrator, it will make the text line up evenly by “hanging” quotation marks in the margin. Otherwise, quotations are set flush with text, within the margin.

To turn on Roman hanging punctuation, open the Paragraph tool panel, and click on the arrow on the upper right of the box. A drop-down menu will appear in which you can choose “Roman Hanging Punctuation.”


Image Source:
https://justcreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/roman-hanging.jpg


SOURCE:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/02/useful-typography-tips-for-adobe-illustrator/

Pixel alignment

Pixel-aligned is an object level property, which enables an object to have its vertical and horizontal paths aligned to the pixel grid. This property remains with the object when the object is modified. Any vertical or horizontal path in the object gets aligned to pixel grid as long as the property is set for it.


Left. Not Pixel aligned. Right, Pixel Aligned.





the "align new objects to pixel grid" option in the new document window. efficient for dropping in vectors without backgrounds to sharpen edges.



SOURCE:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/drawing-pixel-aligned-paths-web.html