How to make a fixed font thinner

How to make a font thinner? 

The simplest trick is to first, convert the font to outlines.

Once you've converted to outlines, add a stroke of 2+ (depending on the size and shapes of the glyphs). 

(for a thinner font, increase stroke).

Select all and then Object > Outline Stroke:

Go ahead and select the Shape Builder tool.

Use the tool to turn any strokes into one shape, so you can delete it.

Only the original shape of the font remains.

The inside outline(s) of the font remains, and it's THINNER!

Stroke and Repeat if needed.

Fun Wow and Enjoy!

Hi all

A simple solution to do this is to adjust the stroke to the colour white or whatever your background is, which in turn makes it thinner as it blends with the background, so say your font is black and you have white background : set the stroke to white and adjust accordingly with the weight.

Regards,

Faye

If you want to keep the font live for future work you can make new thinner versions using an application like FontLab Studio or Fontographer.

If it's just a question of making a single word thinner you can often get away with outlining it, giving it a stroke, expanding the stroke and then subtracting the stroke from the fill with Pathfinder. Try this using a white stroke so that you can judge how heavy the stroke needs to be. This isn't a perfect solution, but like I say, you can sometimes get away with it as long as the stroke is not too heavy.

Use Offset Paths or apply contours which you later expand back to normal shape objects. Neither method is guaranteed to give typographically perfect results, though, and with lots of text it gets repetitive, so maybe still find a similar font with reduced weight? the type doesn#t look that extraordinary, so I'm sure you can find enough alternatives.

Mylenium