Text in Flash

When you get right down to it, the primary way to convey information on your website
is through text. Macromedia Flash gives you control not only over the type of text you
can add to a document but also over the properties of the text. Text can be loaded into
a Flash document from a web server or can be added directly to the Stage. After the
text is in place, the kerning, character spacing, leading, font style, font size color, justification,and even anti-aliasing can all be controlled in the Property inspector. Because
Flash is both an interactive tool and an animation tool, you can add text effects to a web
page that are simply unavailable through HTML or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

In this lesson, you learn how to add and format text. You learn how to embed fonts for
consistent branding identity. You create a couple of text-based animations and other
special effects designed to introduce you to the creative aspects of text use in Flash.
You also learn how to add text to the TextArea component, use a dynamic text field, and
spell check a document. By the end of this lesson, you will have a solid grounding in the
way Flash works with text and fonts and, most important of all; you will discover that
text “is not the gray stuff on a page.”

Here are some links from this site to get things moving:

Web Typography. Now there's an oxymoron

Typgraphic Contrast and the Web

Does your font choice measure up?

It's all about legibility

The Typgraphy Lecture

Who is tom green?

Teacher, author, raconteur. Here's a run down of what I have been up to over the past few years. My Bio.

Classes

• The Flash interface:
  Week 1
• ActionScript basics:
  Week 2
• Working with graphics:
  Week 3,4
• Working with text:
  Week 5
  
• Working with audio:
  Week 6,7
• Animation basics:
  Week 8
• Video basics:
  Week 9,10
• Building Stuff:
  Week 12,13,14

Class Project 1