![]() To access this stripe pattern in a different file, click on those same three lines in the right corner of your swatches panel, scroll down to open swatch library, go to user defined, and click on your striped pattern. Enter a name that you will remember like stripes or striped pattern in the save as box and press ok. Click on the three lines in the top right corner of your swatches panel and scroll down to the very bottom where it says save swatch library as AI. Your swatches panel is in your right side toolbar. When you open the striped pattern I provided you need to save it to your swatch library so you can access it in the file you are using to create your font. To make this easier I have included a file for a striped pattern that you can use for this part of the tutorial. I had seen a lot pictures of hatched drop shadows before, but it wasn’t until I saw the font on a dominos pizza box that I thought to combine tip #2 with a hatched drop shadow. change the inner font you just created to white and that is it. ![]() Include a negative number in offset path and press ok. Take your already expanded font and go to object, path, offset path. This tip builds upon what you just learned in the previous tip. Tip #2: Overlap Different Font Weights in Your Design You may also need to re-kern your letters as the spacing between letters may be too big or too small depending on how much you changed the weight of your font. Once you press ok delete the original font so only the new font is showing. To see how your font will look when you manipulate the offset box make sure preview is checked at the bottom. To make a font thinner, however, you need to include a negative number in the offset box. To make a font thicker you can add any number above zero to the offset box. You rarely come across a free font that comes in more than one or maybe two weights, but it is really easy to change the weight of a font by going to object in the top toolbar, scrolling down to path, and clicking on offset path.Īn offset path options box will pop up which will change the weight or thickness of your font. ![]() Most fonts especially free fonts only come in one weight. Now that we have prepared our font let’s get on to the fun part. I made a seating chart for my sister’s wedding once in this beautiful script font and when I took it to get printed I had to go back multiple times because I forgot to expand my font. Expanding your fonts is also a good thing to do in general with your designs because if the client does not have a font they won’t be able to print it. You can see now that you have a bunch of anchor points around your letters which you can then manipulate or change using tips from this tutorial. ![]() To make your font adjustable go to object then expand. This restricts you from making any major changes to your font. You will notice in the picture above that the font doesn’t have anchor points around each letter. This should be done everytime you want to manipulate a font in your design. In this post, I will discuss 5 easy tips and tricks that even the novice graphic designers can use to add dimension to their designs.īefore I go into different techniques you can use to alter a font, we need to prepare the font first. If you are on a tight budget, taking a basic font and altering it to make your font stand out is a great way to give your client a unique design without costing your client money in licensing fees. This week I wanted to talk about how you can take those free fonts and make them your own. Last week I talked about my Top 5 Free Fonts for Graphic Designers.
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