in today's tutorial I have a quick fire trick when using the offset path
function and it's one that many people often wonder how to do so let's dive
right into it in today's video so welcome back to Satori graphics and in
this second recent video on the offset path function I'm gonna show you a
really neat trick when using typography and if you want to
see more videos with the powerful offset function illustrator you do let me know
but to demonstrate the problem in today's video sometimes people want to
have a full stroke around the text but for that stroke to be set away from the
type itself with a clear visible gap in between so one method people might adopt
would be to are coming to the appearance panel then create a stroke and then
actually head into the effects options and offset our stroke however with the
preview option highlighted we can see a clear problem and that is the stroke
overruns itself in many many areas along the typography and this doesn't look
ideal at all well I do have an efficient or workaround which you're going to want
to add into your work flow bank for future designs so for this one
workaround we do need to outline the text so let's
go ahead and do that first and foremost
the second step is to make a compound path which you can find here or you can
press ctrl or command 8 which is the keyboard shortcut the third step in this
offset path workaround is to use the offset path function in the object
drop-down menu you obviously can adjust the settings to fit your typography and
look at the detail of the inner lettering to see if it looks good for
your design and then hit OK
so now you're going to end up with something pretty much like this and
select the outer line with the outside stroke and apply a stroke in the color
palettes down here in the bottom left
finally for this part of the workaround method select the inner type and then
apply a color fill like so so that essentially is the desired outcome but I
do have one awesome and one useful tip to show you when using this design so
after you've played around with the stroke weights you might not be happy
with how it looks especially in the inner part of the typography so simply
come into the stroke panel here or you can actually locate it in the windows
drop-down menu but here you can change the orientation of the stroke in
relation to the path itself so it could be inside in the middle or on the
outside and this is going to change the appearance of your design until it meets
your desired outcome there is one other way of doing this and it might apply to
you and your workflow because here I've got some typography that is outlined and
it's already engraved so of course that means I came up to here I won't line the
texts and then I in grouped adorn so yeah I'm left with the vector shapes
that are not grouped together if I this time I go and use the compound path
function nothing appears to actually happen
the first method resulted in an invisible outline of my text but if we
then use the offset path we have another different outcome as well it's easy to
see what it's actually happened by coming into the layers window because we
have two shapes one the original text and then the offset chunkier version
with the thicker version we have to simply flick it over to a stroke and
then the desired outcome has been achieved in a second different method so
this workaround is something many people want to achieve but many cannot seem to
accomplish so I hope this short but sweet tutorial actually appeals to you
when using offset path function with holography also if you want to see more
offset function tutorials and just let me know in the comment section down
below because there are more tips and there are more functions and uses that I
do have for it in Illustrator but of course guys until next time design your
future today peace