tune in today for an illustrator text effects tutorial where I show you how to
make fuzzy text in easy-to-follow steps using Adobe Illustrator welcome back to
you to tear graphics the home of graphic design content right here on YouTube
today is typography Tuesday and so for the occasion I have an illustrated text
effects tutorial on how to make fuzzy text so let's dive right into the
tutorial we need to make a new document and seeing as my graphic is going to be
used for web-based purposes and not print I'm going to select RGB is the
colour mode and a resolution of 72 PPI perfect for screens if you want your
fuzzy text design to be for print you CMYK is the color mode and a 300 PPI
resolution every good vector base graphic and needs a good background now
for today's text effect I'm going to simply use a dark tone as the background
color so choose your color and then select the rectangle tool with M on your
keyboard draw out a rectangle the same size of the canvas and then lock it down
in place every step in today's tutorial is essential so follow along step by
step and make some fuzzy text
we need some text with the text effect suppress T for the type tool and then
choose a letter I'm going to use my custom font to script Satori which you
can find on my website for download at
I was going to use the lowercase o but I've gone for the uppercase version
instead we need to outline the tanks to turn into a vector shape enabling us to
work with it and add the text effects
press Shift + X together to flick the fill of the text over to a stroke next
we need to press C on the keyboard to access the scissors tool or you can find
in the toolbar menu you only need to click on one anchor point and then to
break the vector path open as you can see here
if your letter has a midsection press a for the direct selection tool click on
anchor point in the middle path and then press backspace to delete the anchor
point but also press it one more time to remove it entirely we're not actually
that far away from the final fuzzy text effects in today's tutorial the next
step is to press L for your lips tool and then to generate a perfect circle by
holding down shift on your keyboard add a gradient fill to the circle and the
color and the direction of the gradient is entirely up to you I've actually gone
for a vibrant purple to pinkie kind of read from my design
when ready hold down the alt/option key and click and drag to duplicate the
circle below we need to make sure they're perfectly aligned which we can
do in the airline window we now need to go up to object blend and blending
options whilst both circles are selected use a specified distance option has
something like 1.5 as a measurement go back into object and blend but this time
choose make the next step is super important for the fuzzy Tex effect in
Adobe Illustrator you need to click the text itself and then release the
compound path flexo in the object section
then select both the blend and the text and go into objects blend and replace
spine this will essentially place your blend along the stroke letter path if
your blend is too thick or too thin press command Z and get back some steps
to resize it finally go into effects and the store and transform and use the
rough an option play around the settings but beware that this might slow down
your computer drastically depending on your machine this might happen when you
raise the sliders too far to the right
the idea is to click the preview option and play around with the sliders until
you have a neat fatty text effect like so you can also use a direct selection
tool to manipulate the path where is broken and this could provide for some
really cool text effect and do build a straighter
now place your design over the top of the background to show it off properly
I'm sure you can have all kinds of fun with this text effect so let me know if
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