Illustrator’s Two Kinds of Type

Khara Plicanic explains the two kinds of type in Illustrator.

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In this short Illustrator video, Khara Plicanic demonstrates the two different kinds of text you will find in Illustrator: point type and area type. She shows which is which and how each behaves.

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This article was last modified on October 1, 2026

This article was first published on October 1, 2026

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