# How to Use Text Styles

Artboard 1.9 introduces Text Styles. Documents created and/or saved in Artboard 1.9 may use the Fonts panel to create ad-hoc and saved text styles.

## Show Hide To Create a Style for a Text Object:

1. Choose the Text [t] or Text Path [e] tool.
2. Place your text.
3. With the text selected, use the Fonts panel to edit the style properties.

## Show Hide To Reset the Text Style to the Default:

With the Text [t] or Text Path [e] tool active, or with a text object selected, do one of the following:

- Click the 'Reset' button in the Format Bar to reset to the default style (Helvetica Regular 14pt).
- Click the 'Reset' button in the Style Inspector to reset to the default style (Helvetica Regular 14pt).

## Show Hide To Add Text Using Existing Text Styles:

1. Open the Styles & Clip Art palette.
2. Choose the Text [t] or Text Path [e] tool from the Tools palette.
3. Choose a text style from the Styles & Clip Art palette.
4. Add your text.
5. Continue adding text objects as desired (subsequent text objects have the same style properties until they are changed).
6. Click the Esc-key to end editing and return to the Select tool, or choose the Select [s] tool from the main menu.

To change text styles, click once onto a different text style in the Styles & Clip Art palette and continue.

## Show Hide To Apply a Different Text Style to Existing Text:

With the text object selected, do one of the following:

- Double-click a text style from the Styles & Clip Art palette.
- In the Fonts Panel, edit the style properties as desired.
- Click the 'Reset' button in the Format Bar (or Style Inspector) to reset to the default text style, edit the text style as desired.

## Show Hide To "Quick Pick-up" Another Text Object's Style while Placing Text:

1. Choose the Text [t] tool.
2. Hold the CMND-key to activate the Style Dropper without switching tools.
3. With the cursor (it will look like an empty style dropper), click a text object with the text style to be picked up.
4. Release the CMND-key and continue.

## Show Hide To Copy a Text Style From a Existing Text to Another:

1. Choose the Style Dropper [d] tool.
2. With the cursor (it will look like an empty style dropper), click a text object that you want to pick up its style.
3. With the cursor (it will look like a full style dropper), click a text object(s) that you want to receive the style.
4. To pick up a different text style while the Style Dropper tool is still active, press the OPTION/Alt key while clicking a text object.
5. Alternatively, do the following:

- With the text object selected, right-click and choose 'Copy Style…' from the contextual menu, right-click a text object to receive the style and choose 'Paste Style…' from the contextual menu.

## Show Hide To Copy a Text Style from One Text Object to Multiple Text Objects:

Do one of the following:

- Right-click the text object with the style to be picked up and choose 'Copy Style…' from the contextual menu, choose the Select [s] tool and select the text objects to receive the style, choose Edit > Style > Paste Style… from the main menu.
- Choose the Select [s] tool and select a text object with the style to be copied, choose Edit > Style > Copy Style… from the main menu, select the text objects to receive the style, choose Edit > Style > Paste Style… from the main menu.

## Show Hide To Save a Text Style to the Library:

Optionally, use the Style Inspector to name your text style and add it to "My Collection…" for future use.

1. Open the Style Inspector.
2. Add text and use the Fonts panel to define its style properties.
3. In the Style Inspector, with the text object still selected, click onto the ad-hoc style name, highlight it and type a new text style name.
4. Optionally, click the text 'Optional description' and type a description for your new style.
5. Click the 'Add to User's Collection…' button. The Library Manager is launched and the text style is added to My Library > My Collection.

New styles are immediately available in the Styles & Clip Art Palette where you can use them when placing text.

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