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How to: Line 3D effect?
How would one go about creating a lined 3D effect as shown in the image below?
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Why hasn't Adobe built a font feature into illustrator yet? [closed]
It seems that Illustrator is the flavor of choice when designing typefaces. Users seem to have a strong grasp on Illustrator and prefer the design tools in the software over others. Typography is a ...
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How do I create a solid line of uniform thickness inside of a letterform in Illustrator?
I've seen all sorts of headlines and ads that use this style a solid color section of type has a solid uniform line of a different color running through the exact middle of each letter. I've done all ...
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Vector pasting in wrong spot / Font Lab and Illustrator
I built out some shapes to test out a font icon idea.
I drew them in Illustrator. I set my art-board to pt at 1000 x 1000.
I filled the objects and moved the ruler so that 0 was the baseline.
From ...
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Object > Expand on font seems to change the weight of the font
I am creating a logo for a client, I have two simple lines of text in Ai.
I have duplicated the logo and moved the copy below the original so I can compare the 2.
It seems that when I do Object > ...
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How to subtract text from a shape in Illustrator?
So I've made a rectangle, and I want to cut some text out of it, so that the text will appear as the background pattern.
I expected to be able to achieve this by selecting the rectangle and the ...
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Paragraph leading in Illustrator
I know how to set the general leading for at text box in Illustrator.
However, I would like to know if there's a way to set leading between paragraphs?
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Creating a custom grid for a logo in Illustrator
I always wondered how to create a those custom grids like you can see on David Pache's works (http://dribbble.com/helveticbrands) and Igor Duibanov.
I found out how to create a tangent to a circle ...
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Should I use Illustrator or Photoshop for Collateral Design?
I am creating a web advertising rate card. Basically a brochure. It will be a PDF file. Should I do brochure designs or collateral designs using Illustrator and then import the non vector images from ...
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How can I achieve this effect on my text?
I have recently scattered through the portfolio of a designer named Nicolas Girard, and noticed this fascinating typography art:
I looked through the entire web and in every Photoshop and ...
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How to scale a Character without changing its width?
I have to recreate a logo which has been made many years ago and all that is left is a tiny rasterized picture. I want to make a vector file in Illustrator. The logo contains text in, lets say 100 pt, ...
