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I got the closest look with two layers: 1. Duplicate artwork set to Color Dodge in the Transparency palette. 2. Artwork with Effect>Pixelate>Pointilize applied.

You could stroke the open lines, outline the strokes to create thin closed paths, and then do the divide and delete the outside pieces of the lines/paths. A more freeform method would be to use the E …

If you've tried Ctrl+0 and it still doesn't show up, try menu item View > Show Artboards (Shift+Ctrl+H). If it says Hide Artboards, you know this is not the issue. I recommend changing this hotkey to …

Illustrator has a drawing area on which the artboards live. You can view it by zooming all the way out. Page items are not allowed to extend outside of the drawing area. So your problem likely stems f …

Set the Blend Mode of your text items to Difference in the Transparency palette. Change the text color to white. You'll probably notice the white doesn't change to black in the "white" space. That's b …

It's possible to write a basic jsx to draw the triangles at each selected item. The function below will resize the drawn triangles to match both height and width of each selection. If you want triangl …

Even open paths can be filled in Illustrator using the normal method. However, you may not like the result when Ai treats the path as if the endpoints are connected with a straight line. The best way …

That does not appear to be a character, as selected text will show a baseline in Illustrator. It looks like it might be a raster image (or perhaps a tracing) given the lack of paths in the selection, …

Also note that the gradient in your source image will look different in CMYK than in RGB. If you intend to print the design, this won't matter. But deep indigo & fuchsia tones are more drab in CMYK. S …

This will do it so long as there is a consistent piece of text to search for. Can be applied to an action and batched. Notice that it loops in reverse order. This is a common strategy whenever loopin …

Illustrator always uses 72 ppi when showing pixel/point measurements. It's a vector app, so only raster items within it include a ppi. Otherwise, we just export vector art at the intended resolution o …

Have you tried removing the effect(s) from the text frame's Appearance palette? It actually looks like there may be overlapping/interfering effects. The aim here would be to return the text to a norma …

Generally unless an engraving font fits the situation, the best way to do this is still to draw the bezier curve with the Pen Tool. A method that might help is to offset the path of your outlined tex …