From the course: Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Drawing on a grid

Drawing on a grid

From the course: Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Drawing on a grid

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One of the trickiest parts of drawing Icons is making sure that they appear crisp at a smaller target size. At smaller sizes, you're limited to a certain number of pixels, so if your artwork doesn't align to those pixel points, artwork can look blurry, indistinct even a little confusing. Making sure that your elements of your Icon are going to align to the grid that we set up in the last exercise. Can really go a long way into ensuring that icons are going to look the way that you want them to. So I've opened up the chunky_mobile.ai and the 03_05 directory. And this time it really does matter if you have a two windows set up. So you'll notice that I've got two windows of the same file, and the window that I've zoomed out on. What's really nice about having multiple Windows in Illustrator is I can turn off the grid view in that one. So I can show the grid in there which can be kind of confusing. Or I can turn that off. I've also hidden the guidelines in this Window view as well, so…

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