today I have a typography Illustrator tutorial are we going to design some
awesome vector typography in Adobe Illustrator
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typography illustrator tutorial here is our text and it looks fairly bland right
now but we're going to turn this into some awesome typography in today's
tutorial here's the font in case you want to know what it is and it's
actually a link in the description below if you want to download it the first
thing we need to do is outline the typography so it changes the font into
an actual better shape and then we need to encrypt everything that's going to
enable us to edit each individual letter
press command or control R to open up the rulers and then Tricon a guide that
we're going to use to line the typography along a baseline select each
letter individually and nudge them left right up and down with arrow keys on
your keyboard you can also press V to access a selection tool and move the
typography around this way
once you've ordered an arranger typography you can now check for
anomalies like this here if you press a on your keyboard you're going to access
a direct selection tool and with this tool you can edit each individual anchor
point of yourtypography however you could also access the smooth tool here
and simply click a single anchor point to smoothen the entire letter like so
this tip will really help you in today's typography Illustrator tutorial I'm
going to repeat the process here on the a and as you can see it easily smoothens
the entire letter
you can also access a direct selection tool and click once on an anchor point
hit delete once and then delete again this will remove a section of the
typography so go over your entire typography design using direct selection
tool the smooth tool and edit the style and the shape of the lettering until
you're happy with how it looks for your typography design
we're now going to add some cool details to our topography in today's tutorial
press P on your keyboard to access the pencil and then draw in a line like I'm
doing here press V to access a selection tool and deselect off of the path and
increase the stroke way here's a quick tip for you'll either double click the
line or right-click it so that you can isolate the line like so now you can see
a lot easier on your screen if you then take the width tool you can edit and
control the width of the line anywhere along the stroke path this of course is
up to you and you should do what you think looks best for your table or query
design if you open up the stroke window here you can round off the end of the
line if you see what it looks like when it's not rounded off and then after when
I change the setting obviously the rounded off version looks better you
then simply need to click the top gray bar to uncheck the isolation option
access a direct selection tool and edit the line that you've just made
we need to upload the path on the window for the next part of today's typography
illustrator tutorial access the pen tool and then draw in a shape that we're
going to use to cut into the typography
turn the shape over to a fill and then select both the shape and your
typography and use the minus front option in the path on the window again
edit the vector path with the direct selection tool and then go ahead and do
this all over your typography design you should take your time to make sure
everything is perfect before you continue the tutorial
I have a tiny to show you quickly we can cut into the typographer using the
Pathfinders we did before so drawing a shape with the pencil
flick the shape it with to a fill and then cut into the typography with the
Pathfinder tool this will add more depth and detail to your design in today's
typography illustrator tutorial as you can see why typography design is taking
shape so get creative with the lines you add to your design and when you get to
this stage we're going to add an underline to our design but first
outline the stroke and then unite everything in the Pathfinder window
access the pen tool and into a curved line underneath the typography like I'm doing
here we want to add a rounded off stroke effect to the stroke in the stroke
window and then increase the stroke way
access the width tool with Shift + W and then edit the way so it goes from thin
to thick at the very end
once you've constructed your line add smaller lines we did before in the
typography matching the style and the effect we now have the typography finish
in today's tutorial we need to outline the stroke again and then unite
everything in the path on the window basically leaving as one United vector
shape this will enable us to add multiple strokes and gradients so open
up the appearance panel like so with the typography selected click the top right
corner of the appearance panel add a new fill you want to select the gradient
icon and then add your gradient you can choose whatever colors you wish for your
design
you can easily edit the direction of the gradient with the gradient tool here
once you've added the gradient on the fill we can then add a black background
with the rectangle tool
send it to the very back and then lock it down in place
select the typography again and drag the stroke layer below the fill layer we
will knit stroke to match the black of the background and then add a new stroke
again and then drag this one behind both layers you need to click the same
gradient color of the fill to match the stroke and then increase the stroke
weights you may have issues like I have here and to resolve this select the
typography and open up the stroke window
use the same settings as I used so play around the settings and the strokes of
your design until you're happy with your typography and that was today's
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