today we're going to make crisp clean and stylish hand lettering with my tips
and techniques editing stylish hand lettering in Adobe Illustrator
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before we start it should be noted that this video is a tutorial on tips for editing
hand lettering not actually creating hand lettering itself if you
guys want to see a video where I show you how to make hand lettering in Adobe
Illustrator and leave a comment in the section below also keep getting asked
about welcome brush settings in Illustrator for hand lettering I haven't
uploaded way back that I made on brush settings and then it's linked in the
card above here are some hand lettering that I made with my Wacom tablet it's ok
but we can vastly improve it with my tips for editing digital hand lettering
you can see things are not level the spacing is not adequate and we can add
some style as well we first need to convert our hand lettering into a
natural shape rather than a brush stroke so create the outlines like so
now we can see we have many anchor points in fact we have too many we
starting at the lettering so it's easier to edit and a crisper vector open the
Pathfinder window and then select one individual letter and unite it like so
you can now see that the T is perfectly outlined you can go ahead and do this
for each of our letters in our hand lettering design now we can start to
address the fact that there are too many anchor points in our lettering select
all of your letters and then groups object and simplify here you can lower
the amount of anchor points on your hand lettering obviously the less anchor
points you have the less curves you're going to have to try to find a happy
medium that keeps the overall shape of your hand lettering the same as before
you probably won't want to use a straight line option here and then
finally you can see the difference from the original design now you will be able
to edit the text a lot easier than before this is when you can start to
take the direct selection tool and look for small anomalies inside your hand
lettering when you find some click an anchor point like so it deletes and then
hit lead one last time now our hand lettering is cleaner we can
go ahead and start rearranging the lettering and after we can make it
somewhat stylish it commander to open up your rulers and bring down a guide from
the top you can make sure our lettering is level and aligned along the bottom
here whilst doing this we can use the REC selection tool to move anchor points
to edit the hand lettering further I will show you exactly how with the a
here click and drag anchor points or hold down shift to click multiple anchor
points at once and then move them around where you desire
whilst you are lying editing her lettering look for small normal ease on
the edges here as well to rectify these type of anomalies use a direct selection
tool to click and move one anchor point and then move the handles to address the
Cove I have another guide set up to align the type along this middle level
too using the black arrow selection tool move your letters around making sure the
coding between each individual letter is desirable and appealing to the eye
and we can add a technique to make our hand lettering stylish open the
Pathfinder window for this section of the tutorial and grab the pen tool we
will make a shape that's going to cut into the area of lettering like so so
after you make the shape select it with the selection tool and hold down shift
to select the letter as well and then use some - for an option in the
Pathfinder window you can now edit the cutaway section with direct selection
tool
so this is my hand lettering after using all of my tips that I've presented to
you in this tutorial I cleaned it up aligned it'll remove the normal ease I
added some stylish parts to let me know what you think and remember this was not
a tutorial on actual handling techniques but a tutorial on tips and editing hand
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