Making a Charlie Brown Shirt with Conditional Text

You may be aware that I love conditional text. My latest creation is composed of four objects.

Layers

Layers

The shirt serves as the container for the conditional text squiggly. I had to add a space at the beginning in order to add a little kerning to get the squiggle to be centered on the shirt. Then I added right indent tab and applied a condition to it.

Conditional Text Squiggly

Conditional Text Squiggly

Because conditional text squiggles do not scale (meaning that the squiggle is the same size whether your font size is 2 pts or 200 pts), I had to make the shirt very small in order to get the squiggle to be the right size proportionally.

ConditionalTextCharlieBrownSweater_TransformSettings

Transform Settings

The vertical placement of the conditional text squiggle is relative to the point size of the characters, so by making the characters very small I could place them vertically where they needed to be.

ConditionalTextFontSettings_CharlieBrownSweater

Character Settings

And for your amusement, here is the Conditional Text Charlie Brown Sweater, as an InDesign snippet.

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This article was last modified on July 25, 2019

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