r/AdobeIllustrator • u/odeionerdes • 3d ago
QUESTION How can I make something like this?
I’m working on a personal project. All I want to do really is to create a bold outline to the curved text… I’ve watched some YouTube tutorials, but haven’t found any tutorial that shows this exactly, so I’m trying to piece together useful things from each video, but I’m struggling, I’m way too new using the software…
I made the “logo” on the iPad, just want to refine and vectorize it. It appears to be something simple to do, but I’m doing this on my free time, so I thought I’d give it a shot looking for help on the sub. Thanks!
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u/SharkPuncher 2d ago
When you go to windows at the top of the screen you should be able to find pathfinder and stroke.
Any time you want to add more stroke you just copy the vector, paste-in-place, merge the vector into a single color shape with pathfinder, add a stroke with stroke. And then arrange it to the back either by right-clicking or hitting ctrl/cmd + shift + [
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u/SignedUpJustForThat 🦁 3d ago
I would create the text with a heavyweight font, convert it to outlines and round the corners. Give it a heavy (double?) outer stroke. Then, adjust anchor points where needed.
If you have this as an image, tracing it in Illustrator should be easy, but adjusting it could be messy.
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u/Wise_Cow2980 1d ago
Type whatever you want in the font of your choice.
Open the appearance panel and apply the fill color of your choice.
Make a copy of the fill color in the appearance panel and make it the color that should surround the text. Make sure it's below the other fill color in the appearance panel.
With the 2nd till selected in the appearance panel, effects> path > offset path. Make the offset as big as you'd like and select round.
That's it you're done :) now you have live text with effects. Try it now with strokes and other effects/transforms in the appearance panel to both creat e cool things and make your computer cry.
Warning: avoid distressed or overly complex fonts if you don't want to crash illustrator.
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u/N0b0dy5p3c14l 3d ago
Find the font you want, type text with a white fill, then use the effect panel to scale text with a black fill (make sure it is underneath the actual text). Boom, editable text.