decreasing distance between lines

Question

I have some old graphic illustrations for the 1800's and they use a blend-like series of lines, but the distance between steps decreases as the pt of the line gets smaller.

Is there a straightforward way to do this in Illustrator. Like I said, it's blend-like, but I couldn't find an option to makes steps in distance. A nice thing about this technique is that it looks like a gradient by having a solid color underneath and an opaque series of lines simultaneously increasing in density and decreasing in pt size.

Thanks!

Monika Gause · Accepted Answer

These are probably brushes (art brushes)

what you can do to create them is draw a line and then apply Effect > distort & transform > transform using settings like these:

Expand appearance and drag the thing in the brushes panel. It's a good thing to make this with black strokes, because then youz can use the colorizatio method Tints and apply a stroke color to get them in all colors you like.

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