Creating tapering rules (with inset strokes)

In this final movie of the chapter I'll show you how to…create the variable with rules that appear above and below the headline text.…And as you can see it's a…combination of two variable width strokes working together.…They both taper off at the outside edges.…Now while this is a very effective technique, you may find yourself using…it quite often inside Illustrator, it could not be easier to pull off.…So I'll go ahead and switch over to my final…progress file here.…And I'll click on the top line, shift click on the bottom line.…In order to select both with the black arrow tool, I'll just go…ahead and zoom in so that we can better see what we are doing…and I'm also going to press control h or command h on the Mac in…order to hide the selection edges so we can see the lines by themselves.…

Now something I need to tell you.…There is something to watch out for when…you are working from the appearance panel in particular.…As noticed, I can see the word path at the top of the appearance panel,…which tells me that I have the path selected.…