Working with Text
The tool used to add and format text in your designs.
What is the Type Tool?
Color, Lines, Shapes, Texture
What are elements of design?
This shortcut is used for undoing your last action.
What is Control + Z?
Holding the SHIFT Key while dragging the ellispse tool will create this.
What is a perfect circle?
The tool that uses anchor points and handles to create precise curves and straight lines.
What is the pen tool?
This effect allows text to seamlessly follow a custom path or shape.
What is Type on a Path?
Natural or man-made objects (leaves, trees)
What is organic?
This shortcut allows you to quickly zoom out to view the entire artboard.
What is Control + 0 (zero)?
The primary workspace where you create your artwork, which can be resized and managed with a dedicated tool.
What is the artboard?
The tool you use to select individual anchor points of a path.
What is the direct selection tool (white arrow)?
The process of converting text into editable vector shapes, which is important for logos and other finalized text artwork.
What is "creating outlines"?
3 colors that are side by side on a color wheel are an example of this type of color scheme.
What is analogous?
This shortcut allows you to temporarily activate the Hand Tool to move around your canvas.
What is holding the spacebar?
This panel allows you to reorder layers by dragging them to their new position?
What is the layers panel?
This tool is represented by a black arrow and is used to select and move entire objects or groups.
What is the selection tool?
The function that controls the space between two specific adjacent characters.
What is kerning?
Used to arrange the elements of design, can have an impact of the effect of design (balance, contrast, Unity/Harmony, scale/proportion, dominance/emphasis).
What are the principles of design?
The keyboard key you hold to constrain a shape's proportions while drawing or resizing.
What is the Shift key?
When double clicking a group with the selection tool, the group enters this mode.
What is isolation mode?
This white-arrow tool allows you to select and move individual anchor points or path segments of an object.
What is the Direct Selection Tool?
This feature converts text area type into point type or vice versa without needing to recreate the text.
What is Convert to Point Type or Convert to Area Type?
The first thing the audience sees; a design element
Optical center
This key combination allows you to quickly create a copy of a selected object when dragging it with the Selection Tool.
What is holding the Alt key?
Raster images (also known as bitmap images) are made of these.
What are pixels?
The tool that allows you to interactively combine, subtract, or divide overlapping shapes to create complex forms.
What is the Shape Builder Tool?