Accidentally Made Some Cool In Illustrator And I Can't Recreate

[Opeyemi Timothy]

The font is "Bodoni Bold", accidentally I made it look like this (the sharp triangular edges), and I have no idea how I did. Been trying to recreate this all day because I kind of like it. Please help, I need to know how to recreate this. Thanks

[Jacob Bugge]

Opeyemi,

You can create outlines from the live Type, then use Object>Path>Simplify and tick Straight Lines to have it for the whole letter(s) selected, including all parts, no rounded parts.

For specifically chosen parts, you can create outlines from the live Type, then Click the relevant Anchor Points with the Convert Anchor Point Tool, and leave the other parts rounded, as shown in your screenshot.

[Opeyemi Timothy]

This thing happened to all the letters with just a click, I don't know what I clicked on or pressed on my keyboard.

[Jacob Bugge]

Opeyemi,

You can write Free and outline again and keep it selected, then go through and press all the different keys, and see whether you get lucky; you can Undo when you hit some other (unwanted) result.

It may depend on the keyboard, so you may be luckier than others.

Edit: And/or maybe you got lucky with a beneficial preference  corruption.

[Monika Gause]

Probably you just outlined the text and then converted some anchors from curves to corners.

[Opeyemi Timothy]

Please show me how, you can tell I just got started with illustrator

[Jacob Bugge]

Opeyemi,

I already wrote the steps. Did you try them?

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

This is my guess.

You converted the text to outline and then selected some of the anchor points (apparently just the upper half) using the direct select tool. Then in the bar above you can change the anchorpoints to straight or curved as desired.

[Jacob Bugge]

I believe in your guess, Brad.

Strangely, it fails to convert the curved parts of the F, namely (the upper part of) the tie (the lower part is unselected) and the arm (which is unconverted in the OP and was probably unselected there).

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Some of those points were already "not" curved anchor points, so no change was made. It only affects what were bi-directional curved anchor points

[Jacob Bugge]

Brad, what I found strange was that the tie part of the F is angular in the OP but not in yours.

Obviously, you found the way it was done, so the difference must be caused by something else.

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Likely a differnce in which EXACT/format/manuafcturer font we were using: I don't know if I had the same font/format as the OP. It could be that theirs had a differently-constructed outline than mine. e.g. if I look at another one I have, it has a completely different outline with different anchor points.

[Jacob Bugge]

Ah, Brad. Thank you for looking that much further.

The one I have can be made angular througout.

This makes me believe that Timothy never selected specific Anchor Points but just changed the Anchor Points to straight with everything selected.

This corresponds to Object>Path>Simplify with Straight Lines ticked as in my first suggestion, only with the one click.

Click Here to see in Chrome 

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Simplify was MY first thought as well, but realized that it affects ALL the anchor points in the object. There was no way to Simplify only a selection of anchors.

In any case, the OP has a few options to purposefully create this efefct going forward!

Cheers!

[Jeff Witchel, ACI]

Take a look at the Effect "Roughen" (fx > Distort & Transform > Roughen) applied to the Type object in the Appearance panel. Make sure the Size percent is low (1%) and Detail at 4 or less.

Hope this helps!

[Opeyemi Timothy]

Thanks, everyone. Brad's answer was it.

I really appreciate you all.