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Minimalist type with the Live Paint Bucket

Minimalist type with the Live Paint Bucket

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Minimalist type with the Live Paint Bucket

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- [Nigel] Hi, I'm Nigel French. Welcome to this week's Type Tip and for this episode I am in Illustrator and I want to show you a way of creating minimalist type using a combination of create outlines, guides and the live paint bucket. Essentially what I want to do with this bold version of Futura is chop bits of the letters away leaving me with just the essential letter form. So in terms of setup, I have here some paragraph type. It's paragraph type so that I can use the full justify option. And you get the paragraph type or area type just by defining a text frame by clicking and dragging with your type tool or after the fact you have this little widget here which will convert paragraph or area type to point type and vice versa and we also see the same option under the Type menu. We can convert to point type and from point type, we can go to paragraph type, but it is only in paragraph type that we have the option of full justify. Now the main part of the setup involves drawing guides…

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