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1. HOW TO CREATE OUTLINED BEVEL TEXT IN ILLUSTRATOR FOR FREE
2. HOW TO CREATE OUTLINED BEVEL TEXT IN ILLUSTRATOR HOW TO

This is the fun, creative part … Create outlines in Illustrator: Why would you want to do this? If you haven’t looked into the wonderful world of dingbat fonts lately, dive in here (my own post with tons of examples). *Dingbat fonts! They are so versatile for printers ornaments, icons, mini illustrations, and more. Boom! No more text, at least the computer no longer views this as a block of text, though it still looks like letters to a human eye. Go to the Type menu at the top, go down about half-way and choose Create OutlinesĤ.

Go to the toolbox and choose the black arrow (selection tool) at the top, click on the text block you just createdģ. This ensures my original is still text as far as the computer is concerned so if I need to edit or change the font, I can, without pulling my hair out.Ģ. Important note: you can’t easily undo this after you start editing the shapes that you create so I find it safest to duplicate my text block FIRST (while it’s still text), then create outlines from the copy. You’ll be able to change the size after you do this, as you can with any shape, but you can’t change the font. Select the Text tool (T) and type your text or dingbat characters.* The size doesn’t matter but the font does.

HOW TO CREATE OUTLINED BEVEL TEXT IN ILLUSTRATOR FOR FREE

Got fonts? If you want to try this technique in the real world, you gotta have a killer font library! If you want suggestions on where to find fonts, download my free guide for free + paid + deals + bargain font resources:Ĭreate outlines in Illustrator: How to use itġ. More anchor points means a larger file size which takes longer to print, makes larger PDFs etc. Generally, the fewer anchor points used to create each shape, the better the quality and smoother the curves and shapes. (See examples below)īonus: You also get a look at how well the font was made. You can add anchor points, delete segments, redraw segments and drag anchor points to shrink or stretch parts of the letter. The upside - and it’s way up there - is that you can manipulate the shapes like you can any shape in Illustrator.

(That’s why I make a copy of my text BEFORE I create outlines. The downside is that you can’t edit it as text anymore.

HOW TO CREATE OUTLINED BEVEL TEXT IN ILLUSTRATOR HOW TO

Drumroll please … it’s Create OutlinesĬreate outlines in Illustrator: What it doesĬreate Outlines takes the text that you’ve typed in, looks at the font files (OTF or TT hiding somewhere in your system) that tell the computer how to display this particular font and pulls out the shape info for your letters and changes the text into shapes. If you’ve never used this, you really gotta try it! It will make your logo design diva life much easier, I promise. We want to create shapes from dingbat fonts and edit paths as outlined shapes.We want to easily customize shapes for logo design purposes, so that our logo work is unique in all the world.We want to work precisely, being able to see the shapes we are trying to edit (you can’t do that if it’s still type).We want to work efficiently as in we want to work with the shape of an A, not a text block consisting of an A.It’s a serious goldmine of usefulness, you guys! It’s been part of Illustrator as far back as I can remember and I’ve been using Illustrator for 28 years (yikes, yes, I am an old-school AI girl). There’s a nifty little command hiding in the middle of the type menu in Illustrator.