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Creating your own graphic style

Creating your own graphic style - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating your own graphic style

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to create your very own custom graphic style. And I'm going to try it out on this text. So, the first thing I'm going to do is clear out everything I've applied so far by clicking on this very first graphic style in the top left corner of the panel, and that's going to give me a black stroke and a white fill, and nothing more. All right, now I'm going to start things off by setting this stroke right here to a nine point line weight, to make it nice and thick, and also round off the corners by clicking on the word Stroke and switching the corner setting to Round Join. Now, the problem at this point is I have the stroke on top of the fill, which is rarely a good idea when you're working with text, because that means the stroke is cutting into the letter forms. So I'll go ahead and grab the fill and move it to on top of the stroke like so, and then I'll click on the fill's color swatch, and I'll set it to this light shade of blue. All right,…

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