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Tips for drawing curves

Tips for drawing curves

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Tips for drawing curves

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Not all icons are going to be drawn with straight lines. Now typically when we draw vector artwork, a lot of times folks don't worry too much about the complexity of a path, or the angle that the curves are drawn at. They're, they're more concerned about, you know, how the artwork looks, and if it looks the way they want it to, within the context of what they're doing. But when you're working with fonts, those type of things can be extremely important. Curves can be very troublesome when you're importing artwork into font applications, and if you're not careful how you create those curves, they can really cause a lot of headaches for you. So what I want to do. We've got an exercise coming up next where we're going to be drawing some curves to finish out a couple of icons. Before we do that, however, I just wanted to give you a few tips on drawing curves the right way for working with fonts. So, I'm just going to grab the Pen tool, and I'm going to deselect the fill, and I'm just going…

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