Thursday, January 6, 2011

Typing on Paths







































This is what I ended up with when I started working with typing on paths. First, I had to make a straight line, and then select the Type on a Path tool in order to write on it. That is a very basic and somewhat useless use. However, it gets a little more interesting after that. You can create curves using the line tool by dragging around its anchor points, which ended up resulting in what looked like a cartoonish open smile. To further this, I made the text inside it white and the resulting shape black. To add to the smile, I made two circles as eyes, and it turned out pretty well.

This showed me the possibilities that this can be used in our advertisement. We can make text less boring  by not having a bunch of straight text everywhere. Curvy text, if used correctly, can be appealing to the eye. The shapes can also add text to the graphics in our advertisement, making it more memorable.