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andreaf23600721
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March 10, 2019
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Recreate handwriting

  • March 10, 2019
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Well I am in the process of making my first banner design on illustrator.  I have gotten great ideas here so my next question is what would be the best way to recreate my handwriting? I was thinking the brush or blob tool. Thank you in advance.

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Correct answer Michael Bullo

There are multiple kinds of brushes in Illustrator and I would recommend exploring the Calligraphic brush for this kind of writing. There is lots of information on this page…

How to work with brushes in Illustrator

You can draw directly with a Calligraphic brush or you can spend a lot of time carefully constructing paths using all of the vector tools and then apply a Calligraphic brush later.

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macpawel
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March 10, 2019

you can try also: brush - calligraphic brush, pencil or pen tool with Width tool

Michael Bullo
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Michael BulloCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
March 10, 2019

There are multiple kinds of brushes in Illustrator and I would recommend exploring the Calligraphic brush for this kind of writing. There is lots of information on this page…

How to work with brushes in Illustrator

You can draw directly with a Calligraphic brush or you can spend a lot of time carefully constructing paths using all of the vector tools and then apply a Calligraphic brush later.

Monika Gause
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Community Expert
March 10, 2019

You can try with a calligraphic brush.

But you might need to vectorize your handwriting the hard and manual way by using the pen tool.

andreaf23600721
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March 16, 2019

yes the pencil tool is the way to go