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Use half-width punctuation marks: Makes punctuation marks take up a half width instead of full width. Anti-aliasing is how smooth the edges of the letters will look. Most Western comics won’t use vertical text, except maybe for a special effect!Īnti-aliasing: Set the anti-aliasing for text.
Text Direction: Sets the direction of the text to either horizontal or vertical. Now let’s look at some options in the next category, shown below. Checking the box next to this option will allow you to choose between a light or bold outline and also set the color of the outline. Style: Set whether the text is bold, italic, underline, or strikethrough. Vertical Ratio: Same as Horizontal ratio, but for vertical size.Ĭharacter spacing: Sets the spaces between individual characters in the text.Ĭondense text: This option will condense the text, making it take up less space in your work. Making this smaller will “squish” the letters horizontally while making it larger will stretch them. Horizontal Ratio: Sets the horizontal size of the text. Size: Sets how large the letters of your text are. The list of fonts is taken from the fonts that are installed on your device’s hard drive. Most of these are pretty important to know about.įont: This is where you can set which font to use.
Let’s talk about the options in this first category, “Font” first. This window for my new text tool is shown below. To access some of them, however, you need to click on the wrench icon in the lower right of the Tool Property window and open the Sub Tool Detail options. You can find lots of these already in the Tool Property window. I’m going to be looking at the most-used settings for text. Text settings can be a little bit confusing at first if you don’t know certain font terminology, but they’re actually really easy to use and set. In the next section we’ll take a look at some text settings you should know about and talk about what they do! You can now change the text settings in the Sub Tool Property window to the settings you want to use when you switch to this tool. Once you’ve finished naming your tool and setting the icon, click on OK to create your new subtool setting. You will see a preview of this tool with the current tool icon next to the “Tool Icon” text. Then click on the rectangle to the right of this option and use the color picker to choose the color you want to display.
I usually don’t change the tool icon when I create a custom tool, but I do like to set background colors so I can tell at a glance which tool is which! To do this, click the checkbox next to “Background color of icon”. In this article we will cover the following topics:Įnter a name for your new tool in the Name text entry box. Did you know that you can create text sub-tools with different settings for each of the types of text you use on a regular basis that will save your preferences and switch to them automatically when you change tools? This process is really easy and just requires a bit of time to set up. You probably have a font for your main dialog, various fonts for sound effects, a font for evil characters, and various other fonts that you use on a regular basis. If you’re a comic artist, you know that changing font settings for different types of text all the time can be a real pain. I write weekly posts on and on CSP Tips, so be sure to come back every week to learn more Clip Studio Tips and Tricks from me! Many of you probably know my name from those books, in fact. I was a beta-tester on the Manga Studio 5 program and for Clip Studio Paint, and I have written three books and several video courses about the program. Hello! My name is Liz Staley and I’m a long-time user of Clip Studio Paint (I started using the program back when it was known as Manga Studio 4!).