Illustrator: How to Size and Align Text to Objects (Video Tutorial)

In this “Three Minutes Max” video, Rob de Winter shows how to overcome an issue with sizing and aligning text in Illustrator in regards to other objects. He reveals an added setting in the Character panel that allows you to set measurements based on the text’s x-height for better manipulation. Rob then demos how to align text-and not its bounding box-with an object.
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[@Queengeek]

This could be super useful. I'm going to try it at work today

[@CreativePro]

Good luck!

[@chrisbrannan3784]

Why doesn't Adobe make these the default settings? Or, better yet, why is the container for text so obnoxiously big with the "dead" space under the type. They should just make the text frame hug the type like when you fit to text in InDesign. Does anyone EVER want to use that obtuse text frame for aligning to anything?

[@mangeshgadekar6737]

This is to old

[@CreativePro]

But we only posted it 3 days ago! 🤣