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Anonymous
February 6, 2018
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Customizing typography in Illustrator

  • February 6, 2018
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Hi all,

I'm looking for a good step by step tutorial on customizing fonts. Seems like the ones I've seen go good for a while and then speed up so fast you get lost, or they show something and when I click on it I don't get anything like that action happening. Need this pretty quick, so any help is appreciated. BTW, it's an intense time waster just looking for answers or trying to get to ask a question!

Also, those of you who've helped me with other questions, it's very appreciated and I thank you!

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    Mariam HovhannesyanCommunity Expert
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    February 7, 2018

    Take text to the next level |  try this

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    Anonymous
    February 8, 2018

    Thanks Mariam,

    I quickly pulled this up but will look at it more in depth. Appreciate the link!

    tonyharmer
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    tonyharmerCommunity Expert
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    February 7, 2018

    Depending on the font you're using, it may be worth you checking out the glyphs panel (Type > Glyphs), and seeing if there are any alternate glyphs available for the characters in use. In the most recent versions of Illustrator, there is direct support for alternate glyphs with OpenType fonts and selecting a character will display any alternates as shown in the image here.

    If you want to get into manually drawing new shapes using existing expanded type, then I can recommend Astute Graphics' VectorScribe plugin—as there are tools there that supercharge Illustrator's capabilities and can make your life a lot easier; whenever I've done this kind of work, the Extend Path Tool has been worth the price alone.

    Doug A Roberts
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    Doug A RobertsCommunity Expert
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    February 6, 2018

    customising in what way? building new ones? adding effects?

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    Anonymous
    February 7, 2018

    Yes, more like adding effects.  Also visiting the possibility of building new ones, but for right now mainly the effects.  For instance, a lot of what I do would entail getting a little fancier with the first and last character or for doing logos

    Doug A Roberts
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    Doug A RobertsCommunity Expert
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    February 7, 2018

    can you show an example of what you might want to do? editing individual characters might involve making text into outlines and tweaking paths, or adding effects to the whole text object might simply involve appearance effects.

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