I’m not using any snapping or special grids for this font,īecause I want to preserve a bit of a handcrafted touch without making it Use the Direct Selection Tool (A) to drag a couple of elements out, makingĪnd there we have it! Our first letter isįinished! Let’s move to the next one and see what else we can use to make it Now let’s go to Object > Live Paint > Expand in order to turn each colored Once you see a red outline, click the area to fill it.Ĭontinue using the Live Paint Bucket (K) and selecting new colors in the Color panel to fill the triangles in the top part of the letter. Now grab the Live Paint Bucket (K) and hover over the area that you want toįill with color. Select the visible copy and go to Object > Live Paint > Make.
Panel by clicking the tiny eye icon, just in case we need to use these outlines later. (Control-C > Control-B) the letter and Hide the copy in the Layers Ready, let’s add some color! We can duplicate Now that the outlines of the letter A are Now use the Pen Tool (P) to create a zigzag line in the upper part of theĪdd some more strokes on both sides of the This is going to be the bar of theĬopy (Control-C > Control-F) the stroke and drag it down. To make a horizontal line across the letter. To delete the point on top of the stroke. Use the Pen Tool (P) to add an anchor point in the middle of the line. Step 7Ĭopy the stroke by selecting it and dragging to the side while holding Alt. Settings that you want to pick and apply. It in the Tools panel, and then you can tick the You can access the options of the Eyedropper Tool (I) by double-clicking To pick the fill or stroke color or any appearance settings and apply them to Take the Ellipse Tool (L), hold down Shift, and make a 10 x 10 px circle withĭark-blue Stroke and turquoise Fill color. Select the Vertical Axis and click Copy to flip the shape to the opposite (Control-G) the created elements of the feather andĭouble-click the Reflect Tool (O). Two more copies and attach them along the left edge of the triangle. Select the shape, hold down Alt, and drag it up to create a copy. The bottom, creating the feather of an arrow. Keeping both shapes selected, take the Shape Builder Tool (Shift-M), hold downĬopy the first shape and resize it to make a tiny triangle. Set the Horizontal value to 25 px and Vertical to 0 px, and click Copy to duplicate the shape and move it to the right. Select the shape with the Selection Tool (V) and hit Enter to open the Move window. Hit the Delete key (or Backspace if you’re on a Mac) to delete it. Selection Tool (A) and click the bottom edge of the triangle. Now, in the Stroke panel ( Window > Stroke), set the Weight Set the number of Sides to 3 and make a triangle. Tool (M)) and single-click anywhere on the Artboard. Take the Polygon Tool (you can find it in the You can learn more about color space in Fontself from their help page. If you select other Color Mode, all colors will be turned to RGB even if defined in CMYK or if the document in the CMYK color space.
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Please note that Fontself Maker works with Adobe Illustrator CC 2015.3 and newer but to use color fonts you'll need CC 2018 so don't forget to update if you haven't done so yet!īegin by creating a New Document of desired size in RGB Color Mode. I’ll be using this sketch as a guide for the outlines that we’ll be making in Letter, trying to make each of them unique yet preserving the overall style. This time I decided to create a font in a colorful line-art style. Scratch, I usually start by depicting a general idea. Three passionate developers with a goal of bringing us a user-friendly fontĬreating and using our own color font in Adobe Illustrator CC 2018 and Fontself Maker! 1.
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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to make a color font.įunctional font with all the bells and whistles that most professional fonts Creating fonts has never been so fast, funĪnd easy as with Fontself, a powerful extension for Adobe I'm going to show you how to create a color font.
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