learn how to design this neat and is really stylish hand lettering vector
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everyone and for those really old school and diehard viewers of my channel you
might remember this kind of tutorial way back in my channel's history most people
have not seen me talk about this so I'm reopening the tutorial for 2019 but yeah
you first need your typography and you can either do this with a drawing tablet
or simply download a script font and then go up to type and create outlines
but when you have got the text ready you can always adjust things really really
easy by selecting the individual letters and then coming over to the smooth tool
now with the smooth tool does is it firstly it can eliminate anchor points
or the use of too many anchor points the little sir can smoothen and round vector
paths and vector corners it is really useful but and this isn't necessary for
this effect it's just a really handy tool I think you might want to be aware
of when you're working on a script hand lettering kind of typography so as you
can see here I'm using the smooth tool to round off this a and you can actually
always press F the direct selection tool and then drag down the anchor points to
the kind of shape e one and then just smoothing out with the smooth tool but
let's move on with this tutorial and let's create that a really effect so to
join the entire design into one vector shape we're going to open up the
Pathfinder window and by default many designers will instantly jump to the
unite in the top left corner this will unite everything together as one shape
but once you've done that there's no going back
so instead before you click the unite on hold down the alt or the option key and
then use it this will create a compound shape where everything is technically
United but we can still go in and make edits you can use such tools as the
group selection tool which would allow you to click and move different letters
around after uniting them together this is just a really good and a really
professional and non-destructive way to work in a day billa straighter
so now everything is united together we can make the background color for our
design and I'm going to go for a kind of ready pink color for my text design
today and we're going to make a shape off to the side just in case we want to
refer back to the default color at any time in the process so just press L or
press M for a shape tool and just create a shape off to one side then press M for
the rectangle tool and cover the entire artboard with a rectangle send it to the
back and then press command or control 2 to lock it down in position I actually
think this pink is too garish and too vibrant so I'm gonna change it down to a
pastel kind of purple so okay we're actually ready to make the typography
text effects and to do that we first need to change the text color to the
same color as a background so use the eyedropper tool by pressing I and
in-sample the background color press V for the selection tool to select and
move your text around wherever you want to we're now going to open up the
appearance panel as everything is going to be done in here pretty much
you notice the fill colors here and there's no stroke at the moment but go
ahead and select the stroke color and I'm gonna use black the reason we use
the stroke option in the appearance panel is because we can actually drag
the stroke behind the fill layer which is going to give the optimum effect for
the hand lettering and typography in today's video
a standard stroke in the color palette would not do the job but you increased
the stroke weight and you will see how the effect is going to take place you
would also notice some spikes coming out over your design and to get around that
as well as having jagged edges come into the stroke or window and then round off
the cap so our design is starting to take shape and this is pretty neat but
we can add some finishing touches using the pen tool
so for the next part of this tutorial we need to use the exact same black that we
did for the stretch and to do this come off to one side again whilst having the
design selected and create a shape once you've made the shape hide the fill and
make sure you've got the black switched over to the fill we simply need this to
sample the exact same color of the stroke on your design now select your
typography and press command or control 2 to lock it down in position then press
P for the pen tool and then press shift and X to have a stroke selected we're
simply going to draw in some lines that will make the design look more
interesting and to make it look a bit more 3d so as you can see on this letter
here you can imagine the cross-section overlapping the vertical section of the
letter and once you've made the shape press shift or X and it will flick with
a stroke over to a fill you ideally want to spend your time creating small little
details like this on your design and trust me it will pay off it does look
really good at the end results but also take notice of your lettering as a whole
and find some anomalies or unattractive areas of the lettering
another technique that you might want to incorporate is to add lines and strokes
around the edge of the lettering just giving it that much more interest and
emphasis you really want to take your time and just you know experimental
things and let your creative flair blossom and flow I purposely made a
really ugly line here just to demonstrate that you can use the smooth
tool in this as well it is really a useful tool when I do
like the smooth tool a lot especially for this kind of work I really hope
you've been inspired and also maybe you've learned something today if you
want to keep boosting your skills as a graphic designer
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