today I've got some tips for you guys when designing a letterhead using adobeillustrator
so stay tuned and follow along some great tips for
letterhead design what are some people welcome back to satori graphics I'm a
graphic design content right here on YouTube so today I've got some really
cool tips for you guys when you're designing a letterhead using a date with
illustrator I'm gonna show you guys technical tips as well as tips on the
aesthetics of a letterhead design so today I'm gonna briefly walk you through
as a design it's less ahead in this traitor and offer you some tips when
setting up and designing the letterhead I'm not gonna cover every single design
step today to save time in Illustrator make a new document and a typical size
to use for letterhead is a 4 I'm gonna use millimeters because that's was
natural for me to use and we're going to add a bleed for printing purposes today
to type in 5 millimeters and then click the link icon to add the bleed around
the entire page
so here is our document for letterhead design however I'm gonna show you guys a
nifty technique that you might want to use if we open up the transform window
illustrator CC you're gonna be able to control guide placements very easily and
precisely the press command will control our to open up the rulers and then drag
across a guide we can use guides as a kind of margin so we know where to keep
all crucial information of the design inside away from the print edge I will
use 10 millimeters as my margin so in the transform window I can type in 10
millimeters into the x-axis and then hit enter the guide is now going to be
exactly 10 millimeter from the left hand side
I know therefore is 210 millimeters across so I can type in 200 for the
other side I will then go ahead and do this with the y-axis guides so there is
your document ready for the letterhead design but before we continue I want to
give you guys some tips on aesthetics for your work when designing a
letterhead is crucial they have a vision beforehand there are various methods
that you can apply so for example you might want to choose a minimal graphic
at the for the letterhead that is on-brand with the logo another simple
technique is to create a band along the left hand side of the letterhead the
let's again on a point with a color scheme for the brand
another possibility that you might want to explore is having graphics in
opposite corners we let air design this is also fairly popular
I do like the minimum approach as you can see here this give me para
stationary set if done correctly and finally a simple border that is around
the edges of your design but as you can see this a running theme throughout
depending on the vision the designer has beforehand so on with my design today
like I said I'm not going to show you every single step but I'm gonna give you
guys the most important details it is a good idea to say a background for your
letterhead so for me today I'm gonna use white that I can sample from the canvas
with the eyedropper tool I'm gonna use the rectangle tool to cover the entire
board all the way up to the bleeds remember your design is gonna be cut out
along the black border line but design y'all work up to the bleed I will lock
the background in place so it doesn't move around throughout the entire design
process I've gone ahead and added the top section of my design here I decided
to go with a black and white chic design with gold as being a focal points I
really do love black gold and white as a color scheme one thing I think does look
really good is a good tip for designing a letterhead is to add a logo with a
brand name right in the middle of the page in a fairly large manner however
you're gonna want to lower the opacity down to almost zero this is so the brand
name is easily obvious yeah you can still add text all over the entire page
and a legibility is not gonna be lost
you can add the text elements for the text tool here or press T on your
keyboard the tape that I have for you here is to add multiple text boxes
instead of just using one for your entire text this helps so that you can
edit and manipulate different areas of your text independently for some reason
beginner designers tend to use one text box or all of the text elements at the
top here you can align your text to the left or the right which is a must do for
letterhead design you press command or control T together you can bring up this
window here you then can have quick access to editing the tanks on your
design by changing the leading and the kerning and the size and so forth also
having social media icons looks really really great on a letterhead and you can
find these vectors in the description below
the guides we set the rest of the video are here to keep all crucial in fairway
from the brain edge but if you want to hide them you can control or right-click
the canvas and hide the guides a case of finally printing you want to save two
versions we design one without text being outlined so you can actually edit
it at a later stage so save it as an AI format and then label is something like
edits you can package or embed font so you can outline them too and there's
also another way of doing this which I've learned yesterday I'm gonna show
you guys that a different video for now we want to outline all fonts so that a
computer or any printing agency uses will not have issues in recognizing
random funds when you have outline the funds go to a file save as and then use
PDF
use the newest version of Acrobat and make sure you select the V PDF after
saving option compression should be fine by default and then use a document print
settings as well as these ones here
there is very little to do now apart from actually saving the letterhead as a
PDF and then viewing in Acrobat remember that once is printed it will be cut
along these lines in the corner here so anything outside of these lines is going
to be discarded
that was my video on letterhead design tips using a dev illustrator you guys
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