I'm back and today I have a minimal typography design where we use the
Pathfinder tool in Adobe Illustrator so follow along with this minimal
typography design brought to you by Satori graphics what is our people
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Illustrator the first thing you want to do in a new document in Adobe
Illustrator is to pull up the type window as well as the Pathfinder window
because we're going to be using these two tools fairly often in today's
minimal typography design
a quick tip if you drag up handle a below the other one they stick together
and will keep your workspace a lot more tidy
press command or control I to open up the rulers and then bring down three
guides from the left to the right and then three from the top to the bottom in
equal distances these don't have to be super a career they're going to be more
like Rough Guides at this point our typography letters I'm not going to be
inside the squares rather they're going to be in the intersection for the guides
mean right-click the illustrator canvas and then select lock guides they don't
move around throughout this design tutorial you want you to Sarah font for
the main part of this design here is the phone I'm using today type out one
letter in the position in place
hold down the alt/option key duplicated two more times
once you have three letters hold and shift and cletus let all your typography
letters and then duplicate them two more times
at this stage make sure the guides are still logged and then highlight all of
your letters we want to convert the typography to actual vector shapes by
creating outlines
this is where you want to take your time to get the conversation perfect on your
minimal typography design and you can use the align tool as well if you want
to once your design is similar to mine here unlock the guides and then hide
them you could spend more time to make sure your design is on point by moving
the typography slightly and seeing how a design looks
when you're happy take the pen tool and then make a shape over a letter which
we're going to effectively cut away with a Pathfinder tool
select both the shape and the letter and then in the Pathfinder tool use a - for
an option
the key here is to cut out a section that leaves the letter still
recognizable but which look sophisticated
if you make a mistake just hit command or control Z to move back a step you
also didn't have to cut away every single letter just try what you think
looks best for your minimal typography design so here's my minimal typography
design and doubly straighter thus far you can move sections around until it's
visually on point for your design now with the rectangle tool and with the
stroke selector only create a rectangle around the design though out like a
water
you can bump up the stroke weight until you're satisfied with design
for the final part we want to accent in Seraphin with a sans-serif own I've gone
for good old Helvetica on my design type in some random or relevant typography
and the place on your design you know artistic a minimal fashion use the
option key to duplicate the same piece of text to save time
the absolute final part is to select everything and outline the stroke and
then create type outlines you can copy the design and change the color p1 so
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