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Creating Elements in Sketch: Typography
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Updated Sep 04, 2018Sketch uses the native font rendering of macOS and because of that, the text looks excellent and crystal clear. The benefit of this is when designing websites or applications you have the clarification that the translation will be as accurate as possible. You can insert text by clicking Insert > Text, the white plus button in the top left corner, and the easiest way is to hit "T" on your keyboard. After you have created a text element, lets style it using the Text Inspector. Here you will be able to manipulate the Typeface, the weight, color, size, alignment, and even effect fine details like the Character style, line style, or paragraph height. When you click on the gear you will get the option for Text decoration. If you need a numbered list or bulleted list, click on List Type, and if you need all of your text to be transformed. When designing and interface you are going to have a lot of various fonts, and the easiest way to organize them is to use Text Styles, which locks in all of your current settings into a universal style. Updating it one place and syncing it will update it everywhere. If you know that a typeface will not change and you want to create outlines of your text, you can do so by going to layer > convert to outlines.
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