Text Box Issue

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March 22, 2018
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I am creating a business card in Illustrator CC and when I place a text box with text the text is outside of the box a little bit. I am not sure what I may have done.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

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Correct answer Doug A Roberts

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Barbara+Ash wrote
The issue is with the font. When capital letters are typed they go beyond the box. Lower case stay within the box.

i don't think this is an 'issue'. it's just by default first baseline is usually set to Ascent, and since it's a caps font the ascenders sit at the same height as every other character. Set the baseline to Em box or Leading or whatever you need.

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firstcapfireAuthor

Participant

Thanks everyone for their replies. I greatly appreciate all the help. I will look for a new font style.

Thanks

Mark

creativejake

Participating Frequently

I have found that all of the Adobe Creative Cloud applications tends to get a bit quirky if I haven't restarted it for a while. Have you Quit Illustrator and restarted it by chance?

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firstcapfireAuthor

Participant

I am such a dork. Sorry. Hope this is better.

Thanks again.

Mark

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firstcapfireAuthor

Participant

Attached is the screen. I have not tried different fonts yet. The font I am using came from Adobe Font Typekit , I think that is what it is called. I am new to Illustrator CC and am learning it as I go.

Again any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

A screen capture with the text selected would be helpful.

creativejake

Participating Frequently

I agree with Barbara, however, I sometimes find some typefaces do this depending on where you have purchased / downloaded them. Does this act the same with Myriad Pro or another default OS font? Just curious.

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

This is less likely, but Area Type Options may be set to First Baseline: x Height.