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Monday, December 20, 2010

Create Your Own Fonts with Illustrator

You can create your own fonts and type with illustrator,by some tricks. In the diagram you can see that I create four different shapes from the same type. It is easy to do .Just use some illustrator options. If you like that topic, just go for read more. I hope you will find it clear and useful.

Illustrator Fonts


HOW TO MAKE THAT ARTWORK?   

Illustrator

Open new illustrator document .
  1. Select the Type Tool ,select a simple type of fonts ,and start to write what you like .
  2. Select the type with the selection tool .Put the fill color to black and white stroke 2 pt .
  3. Go to the Object menu and select  Expand .Object - Expand .
  4. Select the type again then go again to the Object menu then choose Path  then choose offset path.. Object-Path -Offset path.. Choose offset=5  , Joins -Miter  and  Miter limit to 7 .
  5. Click  OK.
  6. Open the stroke panel from the window menu. 
For the type modification number 1  
Nothing  more to add , just repeat the step number 4 to add the thickness you like.


For the type modification number 2
Go to the stroke panel and choose dashed line with align stroke to center with the option dash to 8 and gap to 4.


For the type modification number 3
Do the same ,but put the align stroke to inside.  




For the type modification number 4
Do the same ,but put the align stroke to outside.


THANKS
MR
Manal Raafat

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