To make sure that the guides are active, click View › Guides > Show Guides. Put a ruler guide in the layout center to align all the elements. Let the fill color remain R:244 G:206 B:47 (#f4ce2f) and create a 124х10 mm rectangular. In the pop-up window, set the dimensions to 110 х 16mm. Pick the Rectangle Tool (M) and right-click on the layout. Create a new layer called “elements” and move it under the text layer. Go to the Layers tab and lock the current layer. Once all that is entered, you have the following mockup: 3. Also, put Tracking=300 in the Character tab (Window › Type › Character or click Ctrl+T)
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Select the Type Tool (T), then pick a white fill color and remove the stroke. It should be a short quote in order to keep the poster design crisp and balanced. Feel free to choose another phrase that is close to your heart. I’m going to use the famous quote by Rebecca Reubens, “Design is to invent with intent”. Go to the Layers tab (Window › Layers or click F7), rename the current layer to “bg” (short for background), and lock it (Toggles Lock). With the Rectangle Tool (M), draw a rectangular of the document size and fill it with:
![adobe dimension with letter adobe dimension with letter](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5863e7cc9f74562190f3037f/1548888911846-Y1YIDA5EDEPQ67SHZ4R9/Letters.png)
Open Adobe Illustrator and create a new document (Ctrl+N) with the dimensions of 210 x 297mm. I am sure most of you out there have at least one favorite citation, so I thought it would be nice to create a typographic design based on one such popular, catchy phrase. Truth be told, I love inspirational and witty quotes, especially on design and creativity.
#Adobe dimension with letter how to#
Today, I’m going to show you how to create an inspirational typographic poster using some of Illustrator’s basic tools and handy keyboard shortcuts.