now let's talk about how to change the
format of our font within a text box we
can use color schemes and font schemes
to change the style size and color of
our fonts or we can change it
individually now our color schemes and
our font schemes are options in the task
pane and they really take a lot of the
guesswork out of choosing our colors and
fonts for our publication let's take a
look at our color schemes as you can see
publisher has already chosen many
pallets that work well together let's
take a look at several of these as you
can see they make a big change in our
publication and a big change in the
impact I like green and I think that
might work well for our document so
let's go ahead and choose green that's a
nice color combination for our for sale
flyer now let's take a look at our font
schemes as you can see again publisher
has put together several fonts that look
good for our for sale flyer let's go
ahead and choose the Lucinda sans font I
think that goes well with our color
scheme now let's say that we want to
change individual text within our
publication will need to select our text
let's go ahead and select our for sale
text let's say we want to change the
font style of this text let's go up to
our formatting toolbar and click on the
down arrow for our font as you can see
publisher gives us examples of lots of
different kinds of fonts for our flyer
for the for sale text let's go ahead and
choose Arial
now we can also make this text bold for
a little more impact let's go up to the
formatting toolbar and choose the bold
icon let's also choose to italicize our
text by choosing the italic icon and
lastly let's go ahead and underline our
text by choosing the underline icon we
can also change the size of our font by
going to the formatting toolbar and
clicking on the down arrow beside the
font size icon now we can choose this by
clicking on a defined number or we can
type any number we want into the box at
the top for our purposes let's go ahead
and choose font size of 72 now let's say
that we want to change the color of our
texts let's select our text and move up
to the font color icon we're going to
click on the down arrow we can either
choose a color within our palette or we
can choose more colors to choose an
individual color let's go ahead and
click on more colors now we have our
colors dialog box we have the two tabs
at the top where we may choose standard
or custom colors for our for sale text
we're going to go ahead and choose a
standard color we're going to choose
navy blue to go with our other colors
will choose a dark blue now in the
bottom right hand corner of our dialog
box we can see that we have the new
color and contrast to the current color
we're going to go ahead and click on OK
and save that dark blue now if we just
click off of our text will be able to
view that so now we have our color
combination and our
combination for our for sale publication
here's a special design tip when dealing
with font colors try not to use light
colored text on a light color background
and along those same lines don't use
dark colored text on a dark color
background this makes the text much too
difficult to read and another design tip
for fonts in general would be not to
have too many different font styles or
colors within the same publication it
just makes the publication too busy and
too difficult to read so now that we've
formatted the text on this flyer go
ahead and feel free to customize the
flyer on your own