in today's video we have a quick illustrator tutorial on how to design
some funky fresh typography in 2019 we're going to utilize abstract shapes
and some nifty techniques for the final typographic solution it's actually
easier than you think so welcome back to Satori graphics and we're delving deep
into Adobe Illustrator once more for today's of funky fresh
typography design now because it's typography we obviously need some text
so go ahead and press T for the type tool and then generate out your text it
is wise to choose a thick and a bold font and I personally gone for Helvetica
black for maximum thickness but once you have your texts you can move it off to
one side as we're going to use that later
now choose a background color for your design in the color palette and you can
choose whatever floats your boat but I'm electing for a deep blue almost
purple color for my design now press M for the rectangle tool and then draw out
an area on your artboard you can click your rectangle and then press command a
two on a Mac or ctrl two on a PC as this is gonna lock it down in place this just
makes things easier for us when we're creating a design today we're now going
to utilize the curvature tool to make the shapes for the next step in today's
typography tutorial now this is a lot easier to use than the pen tool for
shapes of this nature you just click in the general direction that you want to
go and illustrator is going to generate perfect curves as you go it's that
simple really
so once you have your shape click the gradient in the color palette situated
in the bottom left on your screen and then apply your gradient choosing the
colors that you want to use now one more time I'm going to make another quick
shape here following the shape style and direction using the curvature tool I'm
going to show you how to tidy up the shapes in a moment but you can always
press a for the direct selection tool and then manipulate the anchor points
and the handles around the shape but for an easy and a quick smooth adjustment go
ahead and choose the smooth tool located here now just click the anchor points
what click and drag around a vector path and in doing so your shape will smoothen
out before your very eyes I'm now going to show you a really neat technique that
is great for digital illustrations as what is the current typography design
that we're making now if I have to abstract looking shapes here I can
select both of them and then open up the Pathfinder window
in the Pathfinder window I'm going to utilize the divide function now this
cuts the shapes along the overlapping vector paths and I can actually then
ungroup the divider selection and remove unwanted areas this leaves me with a
crisp and a clean cut out shape for my design and you can have lots of fun with
this technique on your own design now I've added a dark background to the
artboard with the rectangle tool and I also finished off my abstract shape
creations we're now ready to make the actual tab or key section in the process
we're going to use a clipping mask so bring the text to the front of all
layers and then in the Pathfinder window convert your text to a compound shape
this is going to allow us to change the actual wording after the effect has been
applied now bring your text over on to your design and adjust the scale by
holding down shift and then clicking and dragging we can actually change the
layout later so I have some neat tips to show you but for now just try to cover
your design properly with it text now my background layer is in fact locked but
the blue one is unlocked and I did that by unlocking them here in the top drop
down menu or you can use the keyboard shortcut now select all relevant layers
and then right or ctrl click the selection you then just choose a
clipping mask and as you can see that looks pretty neat but what if you're not
happy with the layout of your design well and go ahead and open up the layers
window and then you can select specific design objects by clicking the blue
button and then just adjust and move them around as you see fit
the clipping mask effects will still be applied to your design and typography
because the text is a compound shape you can also change the wording to now it's
going to help if you name the layers in the layers window that's something I
didn't do today but it's nice Angela it's just helpful you can use these
techniques and these tips that I've shown you in today's video to create
some awesome and some funky typography in Illustrator abstract shapes are a
kind of trending topic in 2019 when it comes to graphic design so explore this
technique and abstract shapes to make your very own designs if you're not
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