T-Shirt-Design with different line heights and font sizes

[MichiDes]

Hello!

I’m curious about how to create a T-shirt design like the one in the photo. The gradient or sunset overlay isn’t my issue, but rather how some words are written larger, and then directly next to them, a few smaller words are in two lines.

Do I need to use hundreds of individual text boxes and adjust them manually, or does anyone have an idea on how this could be done more easily?

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

You could serch for online tools to create word clouds or tag clouds

But basically: yes, make single point text objects.

There is a script that can make a much simpler result:

https://gist.github.com/creold/4a6f3c4ad0174d9ad5f6463ba5c47696

[Kurt Gold]

I'm not sure if it is a good idea to do this with word cloud applications. As far as I can see, your example mainly shows continuous and supposedly meaningful sentences, not just a crowd of random words.

Probably it is just deliberate manual work with point type or area type.

As for the different font sizes, you may want to take a look at Illustrator's Touch Type tool. It's fun, but it may wreak havoc at the same time.

And for the two-line or three-line sections here and there, you may have a look at Warichu in the Character palette menu (you may first have to turn on East Asian options in the application preferences to get Warichu).