Do you want to create this cool-looking outline text in Adobe illustrator
I will show you exactly how
How to outline text in adobe illustrator - stroke techniques
welcome back to another tutorial video
I'm sure you've seen the style of text before created an illustrator but maybe
you realize simply adding a stroke
the conventional way does not do the trick. I'm going to show you how, it is
actually very simple. Start off by typing your text with your desired typeface, the
color does not really matter at this point. I'm going to quickly show you the
most common method of outlining text in adobe illustrator. As you probably
already know when you increase the stroke weight you end up with something
like this, and this is not what we want for this video
First you must disable the stroke but leave the fill. I am making mine white. You
need to have the appearance window open
if you cannot cannot see it simply click it again and it should appear, then click
the tab in the top right corner and then in the drop down menu click add new stroke. You
need to then bring it down below the fill. This is how it looked before with
the common stroke if you remember. If we enable the fill in this menu you see it
looks automatically better and closer to what we want
Then set the weight to however much you want
you may notice a few anomalies occurring when you're making the weight heavier,
these are easy to deal with however. Head to the stroke menu and play around with
the settings here until you get a clean and crisp text outline
you can change the color of your fill here
from here you can continue to add strokes making your design more intricate
and more interesting
just make sure to drop it in the correct place
think of it like layers in photoshop
I've added the district is white and the furthest behind straight black
As I said just had play around with it and have some fun
you can make some really cool and interesting design utilizing this
technique
I hope you found this helpful if you have give it the thumbs up until next
time
design your future today, peace