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Christine Holzmann
Christine Holzmann
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March 1, 2018
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How to get a fat stroke on swoosh with sharp pointed corners

  • March 1, 2018
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Hi everyone... please can you help me with this? I am trying to put a fat stroke on this swoosh but need the outline/stroke to have a pointed sharp corner on each end of the swoosh, so that the stroke mimics the exact shape of the swoosh...but I am just not having any luck!!

The top swoosh shows the original swoosh.

The second one shows the swoosh with a fat outline/stroke (stroke is behind the fill) with the corner set to "round join" in the Stroke panel.

The third one shows the swoosh with a fat outline/stroke (stroke is behind the fill) with the corner set to "miter join" in the Stroke panel.

Please note that these colors are used for the illustrative purposes of this discussion only and also note that this swoosh is just PART of a logo. The entire logo has a fat stroke behind it. My client wanted this swoosh added in to the logo, so I needed to add the fat stroke behind this too, but am having trouble with the corners!! Can anyone give me some quick tips as to how to get the sharp points that I need? Thanks so much in advance for your help

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    Correct answer tromboniator

    Thank you very much Ton...yes I did try that method of increasing the limit on the corner and didn't get what I wanted either I think I will have to just go about drawing another path for each stroke...and I am also going to try to dissuade my client from using the swoosh because it REALLY uglifies the logo.


    Christine, you can always use Object > Path > Offset Path to generate new paths of whatever width once you've drawn the first one. True, it doesn't mean it's beautiful.

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    tromboniator
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    tromboniatorCommunity Expert
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    March 1, 2018

    Instead of using a stroke, draw a filled path with the Pen Tool behind the swoosh, using the smallest number of anchor points you can manage, then adjust the handles to get the shape you want.

    Peter

    Christine Holzmann
    Christine HolzmannAuthor
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    March 1, 2018

    Thank you very much Peter I was hoping there would be another way tho' because I have to do this a couple of times because there are two fat strokes behind the logo...first a white one and then a black one...and any discrepancies become VERY obvious to the eye. I was sooooooo hoping I could do this using the stroke method. BUT...will just have to do it this way then. Thank you again so much for your reply

    Ton Frederiks
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    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 1, 2018

    There is a method to keep the stroke pointed, but it's probably not what you would like; change the Miter limit to a very high value.

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