Insert an arrow

[robink21905565]

Hello people,

I am trying to create an arrow which is the same font as my text. Does somebody know how to fix this issue?

Robin

[Doug A Roberts]

in what way would an arrow be related to a font?

[Bill Silbert]

Could you please elaborate on what you are trying to do? Are you asking if arrows exist within any actual type fonts? There may be some fonts that have characters that are arrows. You can check the glyphs panel (Window Menu>Type>Glyphs) for whatever font that you are using.  If you are asking how to draw an arrow to match a particular font please let us know what font you are talking about. If what you are asking is something different than what I've asked then please state that.

[robink21905565]

The letter type is Algerian, and I want to use an arrow which is the same font, though can't find any useful arrows (so I am talking about a regular arrow. I want to use it on a shirt which is pointing to another shirt

[Bill Silbert]

You can draw the arrow as in the screen shot below:

With a line selected choose an arrowhead from the drop-down menu as in the left picture above. You will have to adjust the scale of the arrow as in the picture on the right. In this case I made the arrowhead 50% to go with the 13 pt rule that it was attached to. If you want the arrow to be outlined Illustrator art then while it is selected first Expand Appearance under the Object Menu and then Expand fill and stroke again under the Object Menu. You will need to do both in order to expand both the arrow head and the stroke. Even then you will be left with two shapes which you can then select together and use the Unite option in the Pathfinder Panel to join them.

[robink21905565]

Dear Bill, https://robinkarout.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/fff/

I can't upload my printscreen in here (I don't know why), thus if u could have  a look at the image on this page:fff  that would be great.I dont know where to selectt a line in here, and thus can go on to the next steps.

Excuse me for my questions, but I am a newcomer in Adobe.

Robin

[Doug A Roberts]

if you want to make a new arrowhead to add to the set in the Strokes panel, it's a bit fiddly but:

1. open the file 'Arrowheads.ai' at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2017\Support Files\Required\Resources\en_GB\

2. draw your arrowhead. base it on one of the existing ones and follow the text instructions in the file. don't forget the no stroke/fill box and use only RGB black.

3. add your arrowhead to the document Symbols (in the Symbols panel).

4. save the arrowheads file at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2017\Plug-ins\

Don't save over the original arrowheads file.

[Doug A Roberts]

robink21905565  wrote

I want to use an arrow which is the same font

what does this mean?

do you mean an arrow that has the same look & feel? that could mean any number of things.

are you confident enough to just draw one?

[Doug A Roberts]

would it mean something like this?

[robink21905565]

Yes!

[robink21905565]

This is pretty great actually, I can work with that! Cheers!

[robink21905565]

Just the same font as the letters, really

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

'font' means a collection of characters. 'same font' isn't synonymous with 'same style' -- it means something much more specific.

for the arrow, it's just a collection of drawn shapes. i did it very quickly so it's pretty ugly, but then so is Algerian. make your own, make it better!

[Tranquil_Melody15A7]

Hi there,

Use Glyphs panel from type menu with the same font you are using search for the highlighted symbols I attached an image.