If you turn bounding boxes off (View > Show/Hide Bounding Box or Ctrl+Shift+B / Command+Shift+B) the differences are more obvious. Ports are used for creating linked text containers. For those unfamiliar, these ports are hollow boxes just below the upper left corner and just above the lower right corner. If you are an InDesign user, you’ll be used to seeing the in and out ports on text boxes. If you see ports, you’re looking at an Area Type container. IF you have your bounding boxes turned on, Point Type and Area Type look almost the same. This means you need to be careful that you don’t accidentally click on a shape or path with the Type tool. It will also turn into the Type on a Path Tool when your cursor is over a path. The regular Type Tool will change into the Area Type tool when your cursor is over the border of a shape. Quick Tip: You don’t actually need the Area Type tool. If you draw any shape other than a normal rectangle, you will have Area Type, but not have the resize widget mentioned below. Any text you paste or type will be constrained inside that shape. Area Type is best for paragraph blocks of text or any text that you want linked across multiple boxes.ĭrawing a shape and using the Area Type (or Vertical Area Type) Tool on the border will place a cursor in the shape. When you resize the box, all the type in it reflows to fit the new boundaries. It will show an overflow symbol (red plus sign) in the bottom right when there is more text than container. Dragging with the Type Tool makes a container that wraps text within it. There are Area Type tools under the main Type Tool AND you can make Area Type on the fly by dragging out a container with the Type Tool. If you don’t hold down the Shift key when resizing, your text can be distorted easily.Īrea Type is a little more complicated. Quick Tip – when resizing items, holding down Shift will keep the width and height in proportion. Point Type is generally best for headlines, or any other single line of text, though it will respect carriage returns if you want to make multiple lines. Point type is what you want if you’d like a piece of text that you can easily reshape by dragging a corner of the bounding box. If you drag, you’ll get Area Type (otherwise known as Paragraph Type).
If you click with the mouse and type out some text, you get Point Type.How you use the type tool determines which version of text you get. Which you get depends on how you use your mouse. There are two types of text in Adobe Illustrator. It may scale the text instead (distorting it if you’re not holding the Shift key). Resizing the bounding box of your text will usually change the size of the text container and rewrap the text inside it…b ut not always. When working in Adobe Illustrator, has your text ever seemed to behave erratically? Have you ever expected it to do one thing, only to have it do something else, seemingly at whim?
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